Sentence will be passed in January next year A 17 year-old Londoner has pleaded guilty to a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year.…
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London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
War on Guardians of Peace? Sony Pictures is alleged to have conducted a retaliatory DDoS attack against websites currently holding its leaked information for public download, according to a media report.…
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Sony Pictures hit by ‘fightback on filesharers’ DDoS claims – report
NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
Beware traffic from hacked Vietnam, India and Indonesia fondleslabs Vietnam, India and Indonesia will be the distributed denial of service volcanoes of next year due to the profieration of pwned mobiles, according to DDoS security bod Shawn Marck.…
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Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and potentially launch denial of service attacks and steal traffic.…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
Dump docs on users’ disks using only ASCII art (°O°) Cisco researchers have reported a trio of vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging client Pidgin that allow for denial of service by way of emoticon abuse and remote arbitrary file creation.…
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Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin 🙁
Now we’re not saying it was the Chinese government, but… Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to Chinese cyber-espionage attacks, according to new research from security firm FireEye.…
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Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
This ain’t your father’s ZeuS Security researchers have uncovered the infrastructure behind one of largest and most voracious banking Trojan networks uncovered to date.…
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Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
An unending battle against email-borne nasties and botnets Spam may be the best known security threat in the world. Anyone with email or a Facebook account has experienced it, despite providers’ best efforts to block it from their inboxes.…
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