Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl’s custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the self-styled Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.…
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No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper
Feds, Google, security orgs dismantle fraud botnet, eight people charged A collection of cybersecurity companies, Google, and the Feds are sharing details on how they uncovered and dismantled a massive ad-fraud operation known as “3ve” (pronounced “Eve”.)…
Hadoop YARN is the attack vector, so lock it away Diligent hackers have decided routers and cameras aren’t enough, and have reportedly crafted Mirai variants targeting Linux servers.…
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Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai
Austin Thompson, 23, cops to $95,000 worth of damage The man accused over DDoS-bombing several online games hosts in 2013 and 2014 has entered a guilty plea under a deal with US authorities.…
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‘DerpTroll’ derps into plea deal, admits DDoS attacks on EA, Steam, Sony game servers
Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).…
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Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
Probation, comm service for poachers turned gamekeepers The three brains behind the Mirai malware, which infects and pressgangs Internet-of-Things devices into a botnet army, have avoided jail.…
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No, the Mirai botnet masters aren’t going to jail. Why? ‘Cos they help Feds nab cyber-crims
Researchers uncover botnet malware pouncing on security holes More than 7,500 Mikrotik routers have been compromised with malware that logs and transmits network traffic data to an unknown control server.…
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Mikrotik routers pwned en masse, send network data to mysterious box
Also: Belarus barely brushes botnet builder’s bankroll Another week has come and gone. This one included some Fortnite flaws , a nasty Intel bug , and a voting machine maker whining about hacking contests.…
It could happen, warns researcher BSides Tel Aviv Blockchain technologies might be abused to create a takedown-resistant infrastructure for botnets.…
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Hot new application for blockchain: How does botnet control sound?
These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server.…
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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login