Lawmen respond to Anonymous attack on right-wing moneymen A 37-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged over his alleged involvement in denial-of-service attacks against Koch Industries.…
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Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack
Click fraudster bot fingered after analysts crack its signature A web analytics firm has sniffed out a botnet that was raking in $6m a month from online advertisers.…
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Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers
Less like the Hulk, more like Iron Man The days when attackers relied on sheer bandwidth volume alone to knock out websites are over, with miscreants increasingly using application-layer and multi-vector attacks.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted
But Iran not behind DDoS attacks, say security bods Islamist hackers busy blasting bank websites with network traffic have suspended their assault after a controversial anti-Muslim video ceased to be available through YouTube.…
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Muslim vid protest hackers turn web-flood hosepipe away from US banks
Hint: Sometimes gamer tags give the game away Analysis of IRC logs and open source intelligence played a key role in the successful police prosecution that led up the conviction of a member of Anonymous for conspiracy to launch denial of service attacks against PayPal and other firms.…
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UK cops: How we sniffed out convicted AnonOps admin ‘Nerdo’
Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an $850m botnet spree.…
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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook
Hacktivists blamed for online banking blackout Updated HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night.…
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HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits
Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network’s command and control servers.…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites
Miscreants offer to down mobe and fixed line services for $20 a day Cybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just $20 a day.…
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DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?
‘Undesirable people’ are all over us WHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.…
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WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems