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The usual purpose of cybercrime is either to make money or defame a business; none is acceptable. But DDoS attacks are often executed to make a statement, harm a competitor, or in some cases, shut down operations while installing malware or ransomware. The number of DDoS attacks is on the rise lately; thus, companies must The post What is a DDoS Attack? appeared first on EasyDMARC.

Federal Judge Sentences Russian Spammer to Time Served Though prosecutors said Peter Levashov’s botnet spamming services helped facilitate other crimes, the judge credited the Russian national’s admission of responsibility. (CN) — Prosecutors once described Peter Levashov as one of the internet’s most notorious spammers, a “bot master” of a network of tens of thousands of computers infected with malware that at one point could have spammed inboxes with 4 billion messages in a day. O...