To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…
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Top tip, hacker newbs: Don’t use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads
Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…
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FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we’d have to kill you
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it’s labelled “application DDOS”.…
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‘Application DDOS’ that target expensive APIs worry Netflix
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it’s labelled “application DDoS”.…
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‘App DDoS bombs’ that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix
Pinkslipbot malware copies Conflicker for C&C channel Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it’s using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…
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It’s 2017, and UPnP is helping black-hats run banking malware
As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse A wormable vulnerability involving an estimated one million digital video recorders (DVR) is at risk of creating a Mirai-style botnet, security researchers warn.…
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Don’t all rush out at once, but there are a million devices ripe to be the next big botnet
Hacking attempts come amid diplomatic crisis in the Gulf Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera yesterday said it was being targeted with systematic hacking attempts.…
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DDoS attack brings Qatar’s Al Jazeera website to its knees
Locky-style nasty will squeeze you for two whole bitcoins The Necurs botnet has been harnessed to fling a new strain of ransomware dubbed “Jaff”.…
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‘Jaff’ argh snakes: 5m emails/hour ransomware floods inboxes
Children, please welcome Persirai to the class Researchers have discovered yet another IoT botnet.…
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Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras
Not down to people trying to file comments on issues rhyming with wetsuit balloty, it insists Problems faced by consumers hoping to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission over the weekend were caused by a denial of service attack, the US government agency admits.…
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