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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey

20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…

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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey

Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet

Engineers working on firmware updates Multiple models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers have vulnerabilities that might be exploited to create a botnet, security researchers at IOActive warn.…

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Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet

Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet

Trump hacking claims look like red herring Police in Barcelona have arrested a man suspected of being one of the web’s top spammers and the possible operator of a major botnet.…

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Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet

‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability

New variant of ‘Tsunami’ is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…

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‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability