Gets back up again after half an hour though Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello? ello? ello?: Facebook challenger in DDoS KNOCKOUT
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
Avast! Belay that ‘RomanticVK’ order – there be MONSTERS Russian cops have arrested two mobile botnet cybercrime suspects as part of an ongoing investigation that’s reckoned to be the first of its kind in Russia.…
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Russian botnet suspects cuffed over romantic MMS spyware allegs
No RCE, but lots of Unix DDoS fun Holes in the Webmin Unix management tool – thankfully since patched – could allow attackers to delete data on servers, says security researcher John Gordon of the University of Texas.…
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Webmin hole allows attackers to wipe servers clean
Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula.…
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Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data derived from its ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure. The data shows an unparalleled number of volumetric attacks in the first half of 2014 with over…
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100+ DDoS events over 100GB/sec reported this year
The Justice Department filed a status report with the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania updating the court on the progress in disrupting the Gameover Zeus botnet an…
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DoJ provides update on Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker disruption
RAM scrapers foisted on 60 terminals A botnet has compromised 60 point of sale (PoS) terminals by brute-force password attacks against poorly-secured connections, FireEye researchers say.…
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Brute-force bot busts shonky PoS passwords
Infosec bods infiltrate botnet, uncover crap password security Security watchers have spotted a fresh Windows-based botnet that attempts to hack into point-of-sale systems.…
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ATTACK of the Windows ZOMBIES on point-of-sale terminals
As noose tightens, VXer pleades: ‘Stop breaking my ballz’ Facebook has taken down a Greek botnet that at its peak compromised 50,000 accounts and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal email and banking details and pump out spam.…
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Facebook scuttles 250k-strong crypto-currency botnet