DDoS

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have become more common, and Microsoft recently published a blog post looking into the trends for such attacks on its own servers. In that post, the company says that, at one point, it stopped …

A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the cyber-underground to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on gaming targets and others, using internet of things (IoT) nodes. It’s part of the toolset used by…