Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…
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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
Virtual private network Hola downplays concerns that its 47 million users could become part of a massive botnet used for illegal activity.
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Hola rocked by botnet accusations
Vulnerability may allow ne’er-do-wells to access the 1990s SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Stefan Viehbock says potentially millions of routers and internet of things devices using KCodes NetUSB could be exposed to remote hijacking or denial of service attacks.…
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‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack
Evgeniy Bogachev accused of GameOver ZeuS botnet crimes The US State Department and the FBI, have stumped up $3m in reward money for the arrest of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the 30-year-old Russian man accused of stealing over $100m with his malware.…
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Read() or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’
This ain’t your father’s ZeuS Security researchers have uncovered the infrastructure behind one of largest and most voracious banking Trojan networks uncovered to date.…
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Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
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
Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you More than a thousand point-of-sale, grocery management and accounting systems worldwide have been compromised by a new strain of malware, results of a March 2014 probe have revealed.…
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Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute
Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet
Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet
‘All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience’ Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it