How long does it take for one out of the box digital video recorder to be compromised with malware once the device has been connected to the Internet? The unfortunate answer is just one day. When, …
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Attackers rope DVRs in bitcoin-mining botnet in record time
DDoS attacks are now more unpredictable and damaging than ever, crippling websites, shutting down operations, and costing millions of dollars in downtime, customer support and brand damage, according …
DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks have significantly increased in the recent months, targeting vulnerable home routers worldwide. A simple attack can create 10s of Gbps of traffic to disrupt provid…
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24 million routers expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks
NSFOCUS released its DDoS Threat Report 2013, which details attack trends and methodologies over the past year. The report includes statistical analysis and key observations based on 244,703 DDoS inci…
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Analysis of 244,703 DDoS incidents
Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, has managed to largely mitigate a DDoS attack that started today (March 24) at 8:46 central time and which made its services unavailable for users for a few hour…
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Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed
A German website of French automaker Citroën is the latest of the wide array of higher-profile webshop sites that have been compromised by a hacker gang leveraging Adobe ColdFusion vulnerabilities. …
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Gang wielding ColdFusion exploits expands botnet of hacked e-commerce sites
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, videos, interviews and articles: Latvia establishes a Cyber Defence Unit The newly established unit is part of the volu…
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Week in review: Target breach reaction fail, WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
Prolexic issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it simp…
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High-bandwidth NTP amplification DDoS attacks escalate
DNS and NTP servers are not the only publicly accessible resources that can be misused to amplify DDoS attacks. Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid revealed details of a recent incident in which they received a …
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Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
As security firms and law enforcement agencies continue to cooperate and successfully take down botnets, cyber crooks will be forced to look for new and more lucrative targets, and especially ones tha…
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Cyber crooks will go after medical records next