17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus firm Dr Web warns.…
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MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
First denial, then anger, then DDoS , then patching. A tool that’s popular with Microsoft’s in-house developers, the RadEditor HTML editor, contains a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, researcher GS McNamara says.…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
First time the cache network has seen drop in use of 32-bit-wide IP addresses Broadband and IPv6 are hot – and distributed denial-of-service attacks and IPv4 are not. Well, that’s according to Akamai.…
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PEAK IPV4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying, says Akamai
Gran’s knitting site etc sucked up into pr0n spam botnet A long established smut spammer is using hacked websites to sell stolen photographs of naked celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and McKayla Maroney.…
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Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
Anti-Facebook site forced to temporarily wave Buh-Bye Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello social network hit by suspected BLOODY DDoS attack
Gets back up again after half an hour though Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello? ello? ello?: Facebook challenger in DDoS KNOCKOUT
Updated Spike malware targets Asia Bad guys are launching denial of service attacks from Windows and Linux boxes and in a sign of desperation even fridges, freezers and Raspberry Pis.…
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Desperate VXers enslave FREEZERS in DDoS bot
JUST before you blasted 2 ‘copters with 1 rocket launcher Hackers from the group Lizard Squad have reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on major gaming industry websites.…
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BLAM, BLAM, BLAM… nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom on Call of Duty
Avast! Belay that ‘RomanticVK’ order – there be MONSTERS Russian cops have arrested two mobile botnet cybercrime suspects as part of an ongoing investigation that’s reckoned to be the first of its kind in Russia.…
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Russian botnet suspects cuffed over romantic MMS spyware allegs
The Justice Department filed a status report with the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania updating the court on the progress in disrupting the Gameover Zeus botnet an…
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DoJ provides update on Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker disruption