$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we’re told.…
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Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc
Single point of failure key in takedown Security researchers have teamed up with authorities in Ukraine to take down a spam-spewing Linux-infesting botnet.…
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Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored
An unwelcome PITSTOP Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday.…
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DDoS protection biz Incapsula knackers its customers’ websites
CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…
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Cyber-crooks now prefer ransomware to botnets. Yep, firms are paying up
$66 a pop, if you’re the sort who pays for these things OPSEC mistakes by a cybercrook have allowed security researchers to estimate the revenue of a Russian DDoS booter merchant.…
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OPSEC mistakes spill Russian DDoS scum’s payment secrets
Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
Isolated attacks can add up to concerted malbot action , say boffins Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a tool capable of predicting future botnet attacks while also distinguishing between human and automated campaigns.…
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Israeli academics claim they can predict botnet attacks
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…
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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?