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
Cough up or we’ll blitz you again, scum tell hapless marks Bitcoin extortionists DD4BC have begun targeting Scandinavian companies with complex DDoS attacks.…
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Bitcoin blackmail gang start hurling DDoSes at Scandinavia
A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…
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DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments
Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…
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DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+
Beebone deboned by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce A sophisticated botnet has been neutered by a consortium starring the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce.…
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Cybercrime taskforce collects huge botnet scalp on first go
Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a ‘weird’ kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…
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iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug
Servers up and down during 24-hour-long DDoS GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…
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The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline
Site flooded with 2.6 billion requests an hour Chinese activist site Greatfire.org which masks censored traffic into the country is under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is racking up $30,000 a day in server costs.…
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Massive DDoS racks up $30,000-a-day Amazon bill for China activists
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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Red or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’