Researchers infected devices and totted up all the ‘leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs’ Website in 2016 cost device owners over $US320,000.…
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Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
The blockchain sector is now bursting with innovation, with developers looking for new, pragmatic ways to use this secure distributed ledger technology across a range of applications. And as always, cybercriminals are among the earliest adopters, and unfortunately helping to push forward public awareness of the technology. Crypto-mining malware is now by far the most common event we are seeing attacking our user base, and this is only the beginning. Since December 2017, the Coinhive … More ? The post Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets
Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums Cops yesterday cuffed IT admins behind the “world’s biggest DDoS marketplace”, webstresser.org, Europol confirmed today.…
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World’s biggest DDoS-for-hire souk shuttered, masterminds cuffed
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: RSA Conference 2018 coverage Check out what you missed at the infosec event of the year. Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging results showing that the first part of … More ? The post Week in review: New Cybersecurity Framework, Android patching issues, RSA Conference 2018 appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Week in review: New Cybersecurity Framework, Android patching issues, RSA Conference 2018
Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging results showing that the first part of that equation can be relatively easily solved. As IoT traffic is often distinct from that of other Internet connected devices and as machine learning has proved promising for identifying malicious Internet traffic, they decided to use these facts to … More ? The post Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .
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But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
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Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to their DDoS mitigation service. In the end, GitHub ended up completely unavailable for five minutes and intermittently unavailable for four. But while the effect of the attack could have been worse, GitHub’s engineering team aims to do better next time they are hit. Robert Hamilton, Director of … More ? The post Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks? appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks?
Criminals trying to get their hands on victims’ cryptocurrency stashes are trying out various approaches. The latest one includes equipping malware with Man-in-the-Browser capabilities so they can hijack online accounts and perform fraudulent transactions on the fly. Injecting malicious scripts into target sites Since the beginning of the year, SecurityScorecard researchers have observed two botnets – powered by the Zeus Panda and Ramnit malware families – that are after Coinbase.com accounts and Blockchain.info wallets. The … More ? The post Malware leverages web injects to empty users’ cryptocurrency accounts appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Malware leverages web injects to empty users’ cryptocurrency accounts
Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’ DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process, or because people are using a potentially-troublesome “kill switch”.…
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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users