Bunch of online resellers hit by serious issues this week British e-tailers are trying to manage website disruption after they were systematically targeted this week by DDoS extortionists.…
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Cyber-miscreants use Brit e-tailers as personal cash machines
C&C malware factory The FBI has teamed up with security vendors to disrupt the operations of Dridex banking Trojan.…
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FBI takes down Dridex botnet, seizes servers, arrests suspect
The UK's National Crime Agency is spearheading an onslaught against the Dridex (aka Bugat, aka Cridex) banking malware and the criminals that wield it. “Dridex malware, also known as Bugat and Crid…
Hacker fingered for heroin stunt takes the stand A Ukrainian man extradited from Italy has gone on trial in New Jersey accused of running a botnet and dealing in stolen credit cards.…
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Alleged Ukrainian botnet herder faces 43 years after Italian job snafu
70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial of service attack protection providers like CloudFlare, Prolexic and Incapsula can be revealed using a simple web tool built on newly uncovered flaws, according to a recent paper.…
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DDoS defences spiked by CloudPiercer tool – paper
Ruskies sling malicious packet to trigger denial of service. Positive Technologies researchers Timur Yunusov and Kirill Nesterov have found since-patched remote execution and denial of service vulnerabilities in a popular Huawei 4G USB modem that can allow attackers to hijack connected computers.…
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Remote code exec hijack hole found in Huawei 4G USB modems
Great Firewall of Thailand? ?????????????????, say locals Thai government websites dropped offline this week in what was either a politically motivated distributed denial-of-service attack or a case of badly designed websites falling over in response to an unusual increase in visitor numbers.…
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Hand-cranked ‘DDoS’ floors Thai government website amid protests
Stallman sycophant offers password reminders and handy debug tips. Threat boffin Mario Ballano says VXers have broken into a host of routers creating a botnet dedicated solely to securing and hardening the devices.…
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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers
Should have stayed under the skirt of Mother Russia. Just a thought Dimitry Belorossov – a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan – has been sentenced to four years and six months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud.…
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Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet
Enormous network of hijacked zombie servers threatens to batter everything in its path Cybercrooks have built a network of compromised Linux servers capable of blowing websites and other systems off the internet with at least 150Gbps of junk traffic.…
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Linux-powered botnet lets rip on victims with 180Gbps network floods