Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you More than a thousand point-of-sale, grocery management and accounting systems worldwide have been compromised by a new strain of malware, results of a March 2014 probe have revealed.…
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Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute
Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended to help spam reach inboxes more effectively.…
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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’
Well, it’s statistically reasonably likely. Just update to 3.8.1, OK? Tens of thousands of vulnerable WordPress sites have been co-opted into a server-based botnet being used to run DDoS attacks.…
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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks
Bet you’re shocked to hear that, aren’t you? The Tor anonymisation network is being used to hide 900 botnet and cybercrime-related hidden services, according to Kaspersky Lab.…
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Botnet masters using Tor to hide control tools for ZOMBIE SLAVES
$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…
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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed
Password-lifting network converted to cryptocoin-thievery Another $US200,000-plus worth of Bitcoins has been lifted, according to Trustwave, which has identified a new Pony botnet targeting crypto-currencies.…
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Pony up: Botnet succesfully targets Bitcoin
1775Sec: Um, we were trolling for, er, Aaron Swartz… Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.…
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Dropbox outage was caused by ‘buggy’ upgrade: DDoS us? You hardly know us…
Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane A Slovenian virus writer who created an infamous strain of malware used to infect an estimated 12 million computers worldwide has been jailed for almost five years.…
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Slovenian jailed for creating code behind 12 MILLION strong ‘Mariposa’ botnet army
Low Orbit Ion Cannon claims another victim A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $183,000 after pleading guilty to taking part in an Anonymous DDoS attack against the servers of Koch Industries for one minute.…
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One-minute Koch-blocking attack earns attacker two years, massive fine
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’