New paper points to security protocol as vector for DDoS attacks The complex security protocol for the domain name system – DNSSEC – has another black mark against it: it is being used as a way to carry out denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day means DDoS for you
Net scum target florists on day of commercialised romance Net scum have bashed florists with distributed denial of service attacks over Valentine’s Day in a bid to extract ransoms, security analysts say.…
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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
Ah, great. Ave AV Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus.…
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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle’s National Lottery
Attack KO’d the website and ticket machines A DDoS attack disrupted the Irish National Lottery’s website and ticket machines on Wednesday (January 20).…
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Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle’s National Lottery
Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road … hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?
Xen Project blunder blows own embargo with premature bug report
Malicious guest could eat your virtual rigs from the inside The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169 , that means “A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading to a Denial of Service attack.”…
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Web host Moonfruit defies Armada DDoS crew … by (temporarily) defeating itself
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
White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown
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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Twitter DM character limit liberation spells opportunity for botnets
Direct message command and control hides in the walla walla rhubarb. London security researcher Paul Amar has built a tool capable of exploiting Twitter’s extended direct messaging function for covert botnet command and control.…
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