Hackers to use mobiles to mount DDoS attacks

Mobile devices are reportedly being used for mounting attacks on businesses by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attackers.

Prolexic Technologies' president Stuart Scholly said that in 2014, applications commonly used in DDoS attacks like Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) will increasingly become ported to mobile platforms.

The company also detected the use of AnDOSid, an Android app that can mount an HTTP POST flood attack, PC World reported

With easy availability of downloadable apps and open option for users to join DDoS campaigns, the increase in number of DDos attacks is said to be a game changer.

A 2013 report released by an American-based DDoS protection firm suggested that mobile phones will continue to play a prominent role in DDoS attacks, targeting still infrastructure.

According to the report, DDoS attacks on Prolexic clients in 2013 increased by 26% over the preceeding year and attacks on still infrastructure amounted to 76% of total recorded attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 179Gbps.

Wikileaks is Under massive DDoS attack for 5 Days

The Wikileaks is down after hit by massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for last five days.The DDoS attack was started on August 3rd.
This is not the first time the

wikileaks is being DDoSed, the website was down for four days in May 2012.

The attack is a very broad one. Most WikiLeaks mirrors have been brought offline as well, with some coming back today. Even sites simply related to WikiLeaks have been targeted.

These include the WikiLeaks-endorsed website Cabledrum, including its mirror of the WikiLeaks website, and French non-profit FDNN, which hosts a WikiLeaks' donation portal. The latter was attacked shortly after WikiLeaks linked to it as an alternative to donate while the WikiLeaks website is down. WL Central and Justice for Assange were also attacked for a short period of time.

A Hacker group called AntiLeaks claimed that they are responsible for the attack and has issued the following statement:

"You can call me DietPepsi. I am the leader of AntiLeaks. We are not doing this to call attention to ourselves. We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at aslyum in Ecuador.
Assange is the head of a new breed of terrorist. We are doing this as a protest against his attempt to escape justice into Ecuador. This would be a catalyst for many more like him to rise up in his place. We will not stop and they will not stop us."

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DDOS Attacks Against Telecom Systems Cost Less than 20$

Experts have found that distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks launched against telecommunication systems are advertised by cybercriminals for prices as low as $20 per day. DDOS attacks are usually used by cyber criminals for revenge, extortion, for ideological or political reasons, and even as a form of hiding financial crimes.

Inspired by the “phone bomb” attack launched by TriCk of Team Poison against the phone lines of UK’s counter-terrorism hotline back in April, experts from Arbor SERT have turned their attention to attacks that target traditional telecom systems.

They’ve found that cybercriminals are advertising “professional services” to anyone who’s willing to pay between $20 per day and $30 per hour to make sure that a certain phone is flooded with phone calls.

According to the researchers, the SIP flooding attacks, such as the ones utilized by TriCk against MI6, are not uncommon these days.

“Often, SIP flooding attacks take place because attackers are running brute-force password guessing scripts that overwhelm the processing capabilities of the SIP device, but we have also seen pure flooding attacks on SIP servers,” Curt Wilson of Arbor SERT explained.

“Once the attackers obtain credentials into a VoIP or other PBX system, that system can become a pawn in their money-making scheme to perform DoS, Vishing, or other types of attacks.”

The expert reveals that the VoIP and the PBX systems are usually easy to penetrate because the access credentials are weak, being easy to guess with a brute force attack.

An organization’s entire phone systems can be easily brought down if they’re connected to the Internet and the attacker manages to gain access to the controller, researchers explain.

As other experts highlighted on past occasions, the fact that such DDOS services are advertised indicates that large amounts of money are circulating in underground markets around these types of services.

This means that companies should start focusing their efforts towards protecting their phone systems, just as they would be normally doing with other parts of their network.

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Twitter Down reported hours after Google Talk crash

Hours into a global Google Talk outage that left users unable to use the instant messaging client, it appears Twitter has gone down as well.


In a message to users, the company said: "Howdy folks, looks like we're experiencing a small interruption of Twitter.com and some mobile clients."


It is not yet known what caused the fault. Users that could access the service reported that shortened URL links included in tweets were not working properly.

The micro-blogging site appears to be experiencing a service disruption, with users in both Europe, Asia and the US saying they were unable to load the site.

Crowd-powered web service monitoring site Down Right Now has said there is “likely a service disruption,” based on user feedback.

Affected users are unable access the site at all - even the site’s iconic Fail Whale image is not loading for some Tweeters.

“Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,” Twitter has written on its Status page. No details beyond that have been revealed.