The National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) worked with law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, co-ordinated through Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC…
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3 million strong RAMNIT botnet taken down
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
Sustained assault took down gov mouthpiece The Netherlands government’s websites were taken offline for around 10 hours on Wednesday following a DDoS attack.…
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Dutch government websites KO’d by 10-hour DDoS
Dell analysis shows ZeroAccess botnet still slinging out A combined attack on one of the world’s biggest networks of infected PCs has been partially successful: analysis from Dell SecureWorks shows you can’t keep a bad botnet down.…
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We take bots down, but they get up again – you’re never going to keep them down
You just exposed your users to world+dog, buddy A DDoS-for-hire service purportedly set up by the Lizard Squad hacking crew exposes registered users’ login credentials.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
Avez-vous essayé redémarrage il? Several prominent ?French news websites? fell off the web on Friday for several hours in what’s looking like a technical failure rather than a denial-of-service attack. It was, at first, assumed Islamist miscreants had attacked the sites, lashing out in anger at press coverage of the C?harlie Hebdo? killings.…
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IT cock-up – not jihadi DDoS – fingered for French web media blackout
Plods chum up with FBI UK coppers and the FBI have arrested a man in connection with the denial of service attack on Sony Playstation and Xbox systems in 2014.…
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Young CHAP CUFFED in Blighty over Xmas Sony and XBOX hacks
Malefactors turned festivities into a turkey for online gamers Sony has blamed distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attackers for causing PlayStation’s network to go titsup on Christmas Day.…
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Sony FINGERS DDoS attackers for ruining PlayStation’s Xmas
Gaming service STILL struggling to return to life Updated Sony’s PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Christmas Day.…
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PlayStation clambers back online days after DDoS attack PARALYSED network