‘If you don’t have Anycast it’s not a good DNS service’ Paid Feature In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a temporary .com outage on the company’s primary domain but a complete shutdown of its public existence that also dragged into the darkness WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.…
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That Guns N’ Roses album* might be out soon… or not Chat app Telegram has reportedly been DDoS’d, with its downtime coinciding with protests in Hong Kong against repressive new Chinese laws.…
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No Telegram today, protestors: Chinese boxes DDoS chat app amid Hong Kong protest
Firm explains but security folk not appy with clarifications Weird things are afoot with NordVPN’s app and the traffic it generates – Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets’ command-and-control servers.…
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There’s NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic
Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…
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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’
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”.)…
They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more
Researchers say pentesting software being used for botnets Cisco Talos says criminals are using one research company’s testing tools to set up and run botnets.…
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Cisco smells a RAT in Breaking Security’s Remcos tool
He’ll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour after DDoS strike on medics A self-styled Anonymous hacker who attempted to flee the US in a sailboat has been convicted of two felonies for his role in a 2014 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a children’s hospital.…
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Castaway hacker guilty of sedating children’s hospital computers
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?
Some security bites for the long weekend Roundup While this week was dominated by news of a new Spectre variant , the VPNFilter botnet , and TalkTalk’s badbad routersrouters , plenty of other stories popped up.…
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Starbucks site slurped, Z-Wave locks clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more