‘All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience’ Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it
The undead are coming, and they have 1Gbps pipes! A critical vulnerability in trendy web programming kit Ruby on Rails is being abused to conscript hacked website servers into a growing botnet army.…
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Ruby on Fails: Zombie SERVER army built thanks to Rails bug
Corero Network Security announced its First Line of Defense solution, which blocks L3-L7 DDoS and advanced targeted server attacks. Cyber criminals/terrorists have reached a level of complexity tha…
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Protection against DDoS and targeted attacks
Banking sector DDoSers ‘used botnets’, say security boffins Hackers responsible for an ongoing series of attacks against US banks over the past week may be tapping into botnets to power their assaults, according to security researchers. Meanwhile, the Financial Services ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center) continues to advise banks to be prepared for attack.…
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Zombies are attacking America – researchers
The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake forwarded Xerox scans and …
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Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing