Cyber attacks to online sportsbetting and online poker sites don’t seem to ease, the most recent case of cyber hijacking is Gala Coral, one of the UK’s major sportsbooks and casinos, Gala’s main sites Eurobet, Gala Casino and Coral Bookmakers were hacked this week and remained down for about half an hour due to what seems to be a new wave of unstoppable and undetectable denial of service attacks. Several weeks ago Full Tilt Poker and some other major online poker rooms suffered a similar situation in which thousands of accounts are simultaneously generated to slow and finally freeze the servers.

"This is a very worrying step we have seen in botnets, we have no way of responding to this without working with law enforcement. The attacks will come from many hosts in small volumes and they are going to be very hard to spot. If they can do that to us, a large gaming company, than think what they could do it they find a way to target companies like BT or the nuclear power industry." said Peter Basil, information security officer of Gala Coral.