Alleged cyber-crims unleashed 140Gbps of duff packets at networks The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged seven Iranian hackers over a string of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against banks.…
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US charges Iranians with hacking into an NY dam, blasting banks offline
600,000 servers are vulnerable to this little-known protocol Security researchers have discovered a new vector for DDoS amplification attacks – and it’s quite literally trivial.…
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Trivial path for DDoS amplification attacks found by infosec bods
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 pwns Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…
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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks
Irish forum goes away with the fairies for a while Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming on top of Twitter’s TITSUP moment.…
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Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Zombie master suspects tracked to Bosnia An international police investigation against the DD4BC DDoS extortion gang has led to one suspect being arrested and one detained, Europol said on Tuesday.…
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Cybercops cuff two in hunt for DDoS extortion masterminds
On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an operation against the cybercrimin…
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Group using DDoS attacks to extort business gets hit by European law enforcement
Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…
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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing
Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas
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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White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown