Cybernews

Archive.today is hiding a script that turns visitors into DDoS attackers

Webpage capture site Archive.today was caught weaponizing its visitors via a hidden script to launch a distributed denial of ...

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 ...
Bleeping Computer

Hacked WordPress sites force visitors to DDoS Ukrainian targets

Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to insert a malicious script that uses visitors' browsers to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks on Ukrainian websites. Today, MalwareHunterTeam ...
Bleeping Computer

Mirai DDoS malware variant expands targets with 13 router exploits

A Mirai-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) malware botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new payloads to target Linux-based routers and routers from D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, TOTOLINK, and ...
CSOonline

Hammer time? WikiLeaks-inspired Java script DDoS planned

The WikiLeaks weird fest continues, with Mastercard getting hammered some more this past weekend and a Java script-based DDoS being planned and launched through i-frame based images. Before I go any ...