Botnets’ power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…
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DDoSing has evolved in the vacuum left by IoT’s total absence of security
Krebs says he’s fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…
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Mirai author named as operator of DDoS protection service
Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…
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Whitehouse.gov down? A software engineer is calling on netizens opposed to Donald Trump to visit the Whitehouse.gov site and overload it with traffic tomorrow.…
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Trump inauguration DDoS protest is ‘illegal’, warn securobods
Another reason to avoid those DEF CON charging stations. Google has capped a dangerous but somewhat obscure boot mode vulnerability that allowed infected PCs and chargers to put top end Nexus phones into denial of service states.…
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Google caps punch-yourself-in-the-face malicious charger hack
Happy New Year! Updated Just days into the new year, and poor old 123-Reg is already experiencing problems, this time in the form of a DDoS attack – something it is no stranger to.…
Infosec folk spot web of compromised British devices Hundreds of Mirai-infected home routers across the UK are currently acting as DDoS bots.…
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Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents
Apply best routing practices liberally. Repeat each morning Solve the DDoS problem? No problem. We’ll just get ISPs to rewrite the internet. In this interview Ian Levy, technical director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, says it’s up to ISPs to rewrite internet standards and stamp out DDoS attacks coming from the UK. In particular, they should change the Border Gateway Protocol, which lies at the heart of the routing system, he suggests.…
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Can ISPs step up and solve the DDoS problem?
DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations CloudFlare has warned of another massive botnet that appears to be ramping up and targeting the US West Coast.…
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CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up
Synchronise your watches before someone exploits DDOS bug, or nine other nasties The maintainers of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) have pushed out a patch for ten security vulnerabilities.…
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It’s time: Patch Network Time Protocol before it loses track of time