Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments
Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…
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DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+
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
51-yr-old Liverpudlian cuffed after bragging on social media A middle-aged Briton has admitted running a series of debilitating denial of service attacks against social services, social housing and crime prevention websites.…
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Anonymous loose cannon admits DDoSing social services and housing websites
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a Linux backdoor boasting multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux backdoor turns your box into a DDoS platform
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
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
When they were up, they were up, and when they were down… Finnish bank OP is continuing to fight off a cascading series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that began on New Year’s Eve.…
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Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
The Justice Department filed a status report with the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania updating the court on the progress in disrupting the Gameover Zeus botnet an…
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DoJ provides update on Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker disruption
On Friday, 30 May 2014, law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, joined forces in a coordinated action led by the FBI which ensured…
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International action against Gameover Zeus botnet and CyptoLocker ransomware