Hacktivists blamed for online banking blackout Updated HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night.…
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HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits
Less than a month since Microsoft's revelation that it had disrupted the functioning of the Nitol botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain (3322.org) which was also hosting over 500 different strain…
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Microsoft settles Nitol botnet lawsuit
Botnet herders upgrade malware, still making bank – Sophos The stealthy ZeroAccess botnet commands a zombie army of more than one million machines, according to new research.…
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Crooks can milk ‘$100k a day’ from 1-million-zombie ZeroAccess army
Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network’s command and control servers.…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites
21-year-old could face five years in a Hong Kong slammer Hong Kong police have arrested a 21-year-old man after he apparently bragged on Facebook of his intent to disrupt several government web sites.…
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Alleged Anon arrested for planning gov DDoS attacks
Miscreants offer to down mobe and fixed line services for $20 a day Cybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just $20 a day.…
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DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?
Corero Network Security is extending its capabilities with the launch of ReputationWatch. It will identify in real-time known malicious entities and block access to ‘bad’ IP addresses ‘on-the-fly’ bas…
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Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks
Suspiciously close to Soca’s shutdown of stolen-data shops The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…
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Botnet army flicks ‘off’ switch at UK crime agency website
With great power comes great responsibility … to not pwn the interweb B-Sides HTML5 will allow web designers to pull off tricks that were previously only possible with Adobe Flash or convoluted JavaScript. But the technology, already widely supported by web browsers, creates plenty of opportunities for causing mischief.…
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Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets
Much bigger than Symantec says Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…
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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates