LizardStresser makes a messer of Brazil banks, gamer outfits Lizard Squad may be mostly behind bars, but their LizardStresser botnet has spawned more than 100 clones.…
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Hydra hacker bot spawns internet of things DDoS clones
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25,000 malware-riddled CCTV cameras form network-crashing botnet
Watching us and borking you A massive network of hacked CCTV cameras is being used to bring down computers around the world, we’re told.…
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25,000 malware-riddled CCTV cameras form network-crashing botnet
Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition
‘Tiny fraction of the overall count’ however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…
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Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition
Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder’s crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars
Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…
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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars
Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a botnet dedicated to finding account credentials on websites and testing the logins it finds on banks.…
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Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts
Enlist phones in ad fraud, premium SMS, loser DDoS Malicious Android applications have bypassed Google’s Play store security checks to enslave infected devices into distributed denial of service attack, advertising fraud, and spam botnets.…
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Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts
A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet
Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…
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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet
Did your UK biz just pay £1,500 to stop a DDoS? You’ve been had
Empty threats from faux hackers doing the rounds again What kind of a grifter pretends he’s going to DDoS you? The kind that easily makes off with a lot of cash, it seems. “Hackers” who have been making empty DDoS threats while posing as the Armada Collective appear to have have moved on.…
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Did your UK biz just pay £1,500 to stop a DDoS? You’ve been had
Anonymous whales on Denmark, Iceland with OpKillingBay DDoS
Anti-dolphin-munching mission DDoSed car-maker Nissan A pair of Akamai researchers are warning that entities using the name and iconography of hacker collective Anonymous will soon expand a six-year distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack campaign against Japan to other whale-and-dolphin-eating nations.…
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Anonymous whales on Denmark, Iceland with OpKillingBay DDoS