No RCE, but lots of Unix DDoS fun Holes in the Webmin Unix management tool – thankfully since patched – could allow attackers to delete data on servers, says security researcher John Gordon of the University of Texas.…
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Webmin hole allows attackers to wipe servers clean
OMG, it reconfigures your firewall… SAVE yourselves, Linux lords A router-to-router bot first detected two years ago has evolved – and now has the capability to reconfigure the firewalls of its victims.…
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Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
Zombies twitch, lurch to feet after FBI takedown The Gameover ZeuS malware is back from the dead just six weeks after a takedown operations that aimed to put a stake through the heart of the botnet, which is linked to the even more infamous CryptoLocker ransomware.…
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Gameover ZeuS botnet pulls dripping stake from heart, staggers back from the UNDEAD
Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Sysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been patched, reducing the threat from some devastating and cheap distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums
RSS bods stand up to cyber creeps News aggregator Feedly has been knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after refusing to pay criminals to stop the attack.…
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Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: ‘We refused to give in’
Arrest warrant out as recommended clean-up site staggers under demand A US indictment has been unsealed against an alleged cybercrime mastermind following an FBI-led takedown operation that disrupted the internet infrastructure upon which the Gameover ZeuS botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware had been running.…
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Feds hunt 30-year-old alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet
‘Watch Dogs’ players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a BitCoin botnet after downloading a leaked copy of popular game Watch Dogs.…
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Tens of thousands of pirate gamers enslaved by Bitcoin botnet
Watch Dogs players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs .…
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Tens of thousands of Watch Dogs pirates ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster
Watch Dogs fans targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs .…
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Tens of thousands of ‘Watch Dogs’ pirates gamers ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster