Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…
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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing
Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas
Move follows 45-minute attack last Thursday Web host Moonfruit last night began putting its systems back online after taking down customers’ sites in order to upgrade defences in the face of a threatened DDoS attack, with the firm blaming a recent assault (which prompted the self-takedown) on the Armada Collective crew.…
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Web host Moonfruit defies Armada DDoS crew … by (temporarily) defeating itself
Your four-year reign of terror is (temporarily) over Operations of the Dorkbot botnet have been disrupted following an operation that brought together law enforcement agencies led by the FBI, Interpol and Europol, and various infosec firms.…
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White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown
When bragging of your illegal exploits, leave off your real name A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…
Concerted assaults on five providers and counting FastMail has become the latest web services company to get taken down by distributed denial of service (DDoS) raiders who are trying to extort Bitcoins in exchange for internet access.…
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FastMail falls over as web service extortionists widen attacks and up their prices
Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…
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ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached
Untrustworthy criminals … who’d have thought? After a crushing distributed denial of service attack against its servers and ISPs, secure email service ProtonMail says it has paid the ransom demanded by its attackers – who promptly stiffed the Swiss firm.…
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ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami – still gets washed offline
Website unable to process online transactions Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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Swedbank smacked by DDoS attack
Zombie botnet found in sample despite server takedown The Dridex banking botnet is continuing to show some signs of life even after a high-profile FBI-led disruption operation earlier this month.…
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Infosec workers swipe Q-tip across ‘net: Ew, there’s Dridex on it