Anti-ISIL Hackers Claim Responsibility for Massive Cyber Attack on BBC

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All of the BBC’s websites were taken offline for several hours on the morning of December 31, 2015 as result of a massive 660 Gbps DDoS attack. The hacking group, named New World Hacking claimed the responsibility and addressed that to use the attack as a test of its capabilities for planed attacks against ISIL. Dave Martin our security and director told eSecurity Planet that a worrying trend in DDoS attacks is for the attack itself to be used as a smokescreen for our malicious activity. To read the full article please click here.

 

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