The average packet volume for DDoS attacks increased 340 percent to 4.36 million packets per second (Mpps), and the average bit volume swelled 245 percent to 12.1 Gbps in the final quarter of 2014, ac…
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The average DDoS attack tripled in volume
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
Hosed and hapless hosters to hide from hackers CloudFlare has launched a DNS proxy service it says will help organisations improve DNS resilience by pushing distributed denial of service attacks to the outer edge of its network.…
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CloudFlare launches nameserver DDoS shield
Cops analysing command and control server … in Hampshire Euro cybercrime cops have taken down the RAMNIT botnet, which has infected 3.2 million computers worldwide, including 33,000 in the UK.…
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Europol shuts down darn RAMNIT botnet
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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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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Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways … Google has unleashed its own application security scanner, potentially rescuing admins from ‘fiddly’ existing offerings.…
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Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code
Sustained assault took down gov mouthpiece The Netherlands government’s websites were taken offline for around 10 hours on Wednesday following a DDoS attack.…
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Dutch government websites KO’d by 10-hour DDoS
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a Linux backdoor boasting multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux backdoor turns your box into a DDoS platform
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids