Party understood to be subject of second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday afternoon. The Labour party has faced a second cyber-attack, a day after experiencing what it called a “sophisticated and large-scale” attempt to disrupt its digital systems. It is understood the party was the subject of a second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday…

The need for bot management is fueled by the rise in automated attacks. In the early days, the use of bots was limited to small scraping attempts or spamming. Today, things are vastly different. Bots are being used to take over user accounts, perform DDoS attacks, abuse APIs, scrape unique content and pricing information and more. In its “Hype Cycle…

South African banks have been experiencing a sustained campaign of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since last week, as part of a wave of ransom-driven incidents taking place throughout October. The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) issued a warning that banks in the country had been experiencing repeated attacks of this nature, and that ransom notes had been…

Tens of thousands of Wi-Fi routers are potentially vulnerable to an updated form of malware which takes advantage of known vulnerabilities to rope these devices into a botnet for the purposes of selling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack capabilities to cyber criminals. A new variant of Gafgyt malware – which first emerged in 2014 – targets small office and…