Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet
Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet
‘No humans are behind these clients’ The recent spike in traffic on the Tor anonymizing relay network is probably due to botnet activity rather than any recent political developments, research by Tor Project members has concluded.…
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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…
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Chinese authorities says massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…
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Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Second attack this month sees hackers git GitHub San Francisco–based GitHub, the online repository popular among software developers, suffered a major service outage on Thursday morning due to what it characterizes as a “very large DDoS attack.”… Learn how to leverage change for better IT And win a top of the range HP Spectre Ultrabook courtesy of HP and The Register! Click here to enter!
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GitHub code repository rocked by ‘very large DDoS’ attack
Enslaved machines helplessly press Apache’s buttons Black Hat 2012 Security researchers have shown how hackers can use ad networks to create ephemeral, hard-to-trace botnets that can perform distributed-denial-of-service attacks at the click of a button.…
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Malicious JavaScript flips ad network into rentable botnet
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
C-TIP gives ISPs near-realtime access to MARS data Microsoft is plugging its security intelligence systems into Azure so that service providers and local authorities can get near-realtime information on botnets and malware detected by Redmond.…
Bombardment without collateral damage – amazing Analysis The massive 300Gbit-a-second DDoS attack against anti-spam non-profit Spamhaus this week didn’t actually break the internet’s backbone, contrary to many early reports.…
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BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries