Arrest warrant out as recommended clean-up site staggers under demand A US indictment has been unsealed against an alleged cybercrime mastermind following an FBI-led takedown operation that disrupted the internet infrastructure upon which the Gameover ZeuS botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware had been running.…
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Feds hunt 30-year-old alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet
The DDoS attacks mounted against Spamhaus over a week ago have escalated in the last few days, reaching a never previously experienced level of some 300 gigabits per second at peak hours, says Akamai.
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Massive DDoS attack targets Spamhaus
A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…
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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet