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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Free Dirt Dozer Scanner Defeats $150 Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit

You might not have heard about Dirt Jumper yet, but the bad guys have. In fact, the high-risk and highly-effective DDoS toolkit is probably the most aggressive of the malware tools being employed by DDoS attackers at the moment, and the situation is set to get much worse very quickly as versions of Dirt Jumper are now appearing for sale at underground Web marketplaces for as little as $150 a time.
Posted by Davey Winder at 3:15 PM

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