Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums Cops yesterday cuffed IT admins behind the “world’s biggest DDoS marketplace”, webstresser.org, Europol confirmed today.…
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World’s biggest DDoS-for-hire souk shuttered, masterminds cuffed
But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’ DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process, or because people are using a potentially-troublesome “kill switch”.…
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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users
Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first case of a major industrial control system network infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.…
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Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins
Electronics tutor’s taunts come back to haunt him An electronics technician pleaded guilty on Wednesday to orchestrating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a former employer and other organizations – and to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a former felon.…
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Sad-sack Anon calling himself ‘Mr Cunnilingus’ online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses
Member of vDos booter ‘taken advantage of’ by vDos crew Brit teen Jack Chappell has avoided being sent to prison after pleading guilty to helping launch DDoS attacks against NatWest, Amazon and Netflix, among others.…
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UK teen dodges jail time for role in DDoSes on Natwest, Amazon and more
Infections spread across over 200 regions Police and private companies have taken down a massive botnet used to move malware onto compromised PCs.…
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International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…
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New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
It could be you* The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack