Bad news if you’ve been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…
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Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’
Researchers infected devices and totted up all the ‘leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs’ Website in 2016 cost device owners over $US320,000.…
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Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
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
I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
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Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
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
Researchers: Code designed to hit Linux devices A new variant of the notorious Mirai malware is exploiting kit with ARC processors.…
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New Mirai botnet species ‘Okiru’ hunts for ARC-based kit
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
Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…
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DoS scum attacked one-third of the ‘net between 2015 and 2017
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 20-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
I don’t know which is worse An IoT botnet is making a nuisance of itself online after becoming a conduit for spam distribution.…
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IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS