Fresh Cridex variant plays merry hell via email Cybercrooks have put together a botnet client which bundles in worm-like functionality that gives it the potential to spread quickly.…
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Cybercrooks breed SELF-CLONING MUTANT that STEALS your BANK DETAILS
Disruptive cyber-attacks are becoming more effective at breaching security defenses, causing major disruption and sometimes bringing down organizations for whole working days, according to a new globa…
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DDoS attacks are becoming more effective
Accused will tap the boards before the beak today An unnamed London teenager has been charged with a series of criminal offences following a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year.…
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London teen charged over Spamhaus mega-DDoS attacks
Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Sysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been patched, reducing the threat from some devastating and cheap distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS Despite an increase in popularity over recent months amongst botnet operators, malware-powered Bitcoin mining brings little to no financial return, say experts.…
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Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Did dads storm site on Father’s Day? Some seem to think so The genealogy site Ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.…
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YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS
Arrest warrant out as recommended clean-up site staggers under demand A US indictment has been unsealed against an alleged cybercrime mastermind following an FBI-led takedown operation that disrupted the internet infrastructure upon which the Gameover ZeuS botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware had been running.…
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Feds charge 30-year-old suspect alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet
Pseudo-terminal buffer bug from 2009 discovered Linux admins need to get busy patching, as a newly discovered bug has emerged in the kernel’s tty handling that can let local users create memory corruption leading to denial of service, unauthorised modification of data, and disclosure of information.…
Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…
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Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns