NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
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DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
The newest up-and-coming countries of origin for DDoS attacks will be Vietnam, India and Indonesia in 2015, according to Black Lotus. While these countries don’t have the necessary bandwidth to lau…
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DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
Now we’re not saying it was the Chinese government, but… Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to Chinese cyber-espionage attacks, according to new research from security firm FireEye.…
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Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
‘But boss, the Internet Storm Centre says it’s dangerous for me to reply to you’ Yet another round of Shellshock attacks is emerging, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center – this time, botnets are tapping hosts over SMTP.…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
133 DDoS attacks over 100Gbps so far in 2014
Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for Q3 2014 showing a remarkable increase in Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) reflection attacks. Arbor monitored very few attacks using SS…
Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
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
Yahoo! servers! SHELLSHOCKED! by! Bash! bug! bad! boys!
Hash bang wallop Updated Yahoo ! has confirmed “a handful” of its systems fell to hackers exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability in Bash. The miscreants used the hole to take control of the web servers and build a botnet out of them.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus firm Dr Web warns.…
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MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions