Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers. The Dirt Jumper family of toolki…
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Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed
DDoS attacks are usually seen as the domain of hacktivists and hackers looking to block – then blackmail – companies that are heavily dependent on their Internet presence. But, with the rise of bot…
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DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise
As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the ta…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
When Microsoft disrupted two of the most harmful botnets using Zeus malware in March, they also filed a lawsuit at the federal district court in New York against the bot herders who, at the time, were…
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Microsoft names alleged Zeus bot herders
Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. According to a press rele…
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Massive botnet shut down after botmaster's arrest
It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that the first massive Ma…
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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An…
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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates aimed at cleaning up the infe…
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Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification by the Norwegi…
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Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…