Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments
Because you can’t be telepresent when the bad guys are DOSing you Cisco TelePresence kit and software need patching after the company turned up vulnerabilities that open them up to remote command injection and denial of service attacks.…
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Time to patch your Cisco TelePresence systems
Resulting mess will be hellishly difficult to clear up, say researchers Hackers have established “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers, according to DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula.…
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Home routers co-opted into self-sustaining DDoS botnet
Pay up or we’ll send up to 400Gbps your way New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) chair Barry Brailey is warning Australian and New Zealand enterprises to be on the look out for distributed denial of service extortion attacks demanding payment of up to AU$7500.…
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$7500 DDoS extortion hitting Aussie, Kiwi enterprises
Nefarious pervert hacks parlour cameras for heavy petting pwnage The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has nabbed a Canadian woman believed to have originated a botnet which she used to recreationally terrorise victims.…
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Mounties nab Canadian woman, 27, in webcam hack shenanigans bust
Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…
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DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+
Beebone deboned by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce A sophisticated botnet has been neutered by a consortium starring the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce.…
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Cybercrime taskforce collects huge botnet scalp on first go
Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a ‘weird’ kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…
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iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug
Evgeniy Bogachev accused of GameOver ZeuS botnet crimes The US State Department and the FBI, have stumped up $3m in reward money for the arrest of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the 30-year-old Russian man accused of stealing over $100m with his malware.…
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Read() or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’
Kit used as part of online banking fraud Cybercrooks are marketing a hardware-based tool for running denial of service attacks on telephone systems.…
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Calling all cybercrooks: Ready-made phone attack rig for sale