Console hacker DDoS bot runs on lame home routers Console DDoSers Lizard Squad are using insecure home routers for a paid service that floods target networks, researchers say.…
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Router creds admin/admin? Lizard Squad thanks you
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Sophisticated Android-based botnet a danger to enterprise networks
A new, more sophisticated and more stealthy version of the NotCompatible Android Trojan continues to strengthen one of the most long-lived and advanced mobile botnets ever to exist (since mid-2012). …
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Sophisticated Android-based botnet a danger to enterprise networks
High-volume DDoS attacks on the rise
A continuing trend of DDoS attacks are short in duration and repeated frequently. In parallel, high-volume and high-rate DDoS attacks were on the upswing in the first half of 2014, according to NSFOCU…
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High-volume DDoS attacks on the rise
ZeroLocker ransomware "helps" you get your files back
In early June, the FBI has lead a rather successful multi-national effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet which was also responsible for delivering Cryptolocker. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean t…
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ZeroLocker ransomware "helps" you get your files back
Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula.…
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Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
Facebook scuttles 250k-strong crypto-currency botnet
As noose tightens, VXer pleades: ‘Stop breaking my ballz’ Facebook has taken down a Greek botnet that at its peak compromised 50,000 accounts and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal email and banking details and pump out spam.…
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Facebook scuttles 250k-strong crypto-currency botnet
WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…
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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Winning the war on web stealth attacks
The “National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2014”, published in May by the UK National Crime Agency, listed DDoS as a major concern for business critical systems for the first ti…
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Winning the war on web stealth attacks
Linux distros get patching on terminal bug
Pseudo-terminal buffer bug from 2009 discovered Linux admins need to get busy patching, as a newly discovered bug has emerged in the kernel’s tty handling that can let local users create memory corruption leading to denial of service, unauthorised modification of data, and disclosure of information.…