17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus firm Dr Web warns.…
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MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers of Russian AV…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
First denial, then anger, then DDoS , then patching. A tool that’s popular with Microsoft’s in-house developers, the RadEditor HTML editor, contains a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, researcher GS McNamara says.…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
Updated Spike malware targets Asia Bad guys are launching denial of service attacks from Windows and Linux boxes and in a sign of desperation even fridges, freezers and Raspberry Pis.…
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Desperate VXers enslave FREEZERS in DDoS bot
A continuing trend of DDoS attacks are short in duration and repeated frequently. In parallel, high-volume and high-rate DDoS attacks were on the upswing in the first half of 2014, according to NSFOCU…
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High-volume DDoS attacks on the rise
JUST before you blasted 2 ‘copters with 1 rocket launcher Hackers from the group Lizard Squad have reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on major gaming industry websites.…
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BLAM, BLAM, BLAM… nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom on Call of Duty
No RCE, but lots of Unix DDoS fun Holes in the Webmin Unix management tool – thankfully since patched – could allow attackers to delete data on servers, says security researcher John Gordon of the University of Texas.…
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Webmin hole allows attackers to wipe servers clean
DDoS attacks are a growing problem. In July, Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data derived from its ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure that shows a surge in volumetric attacks in the fir…
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How a large ISP fights DDoS attacks with a custom solution
OMG, it reconfigures your firewall… SAVE yourselves, Linux lords A router-to-router bot first detected two years ago has evolved – and now has the capability to reconfigure the firewalls of its victims.…
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Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
Akamai Technologies is alerting enterprises to a high-risk threat of IptabLes and IptabLex infections on Linux systems. Malicious actors may use infected Linux systems to launch DDoS attacks against t…
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Linux systems infiltrated and controlled in a DDoS botnet