DDoS Attack on Krebs OnSecurity.com
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit by a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site unavailable to some readers between Nov. 17 and 18, driven by garbage requests from more than 20,000 PCs infected with remotely controlled malware. Dell SecureWorks malware research director Joe Stewart traced the botnet to Russkill, also called Dirt Jumper, a commercial crimeware kit sold for a few hundred dollars on the hacker underground, and suspected but could not prove the control center was noteye.biz.
What you should know: A few-hundred-dollar crimeware kit and a botnet of 20,000-plus hijacked PCs were enough to knock a widely read security site offline for a day and a half, and the same attacker reportedly ran botnets hitting a Ukrainian news site and a Russian crime forum.
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