Plucky mail scrubbers battle internet carpet bombers Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has recovered from possibly the largest ?DDoS? attack in history.…
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Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers
Click fraudster bot fingered after analysts crack its signature A web analytics firm has sniffed out a botnet that was raking in $6m a month from online advertisers.…
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Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers
Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the Feds. The crack unit raided a number of data centres where the botnet’s servers were located.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted
Less like the Hulk, more like Iron Man The days when attackers relied on sheer bandwidth volume alone to knock out websites are over, with miscreants increasingly using application-layer and multi-vector attacks.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted
Muslim vid protest hackers turn web-flood hosepipe away from US banks
But Iran not behind DDoS attacks, say security bods Islamist hackers busy blasting bank websites with network traffic have suspended their assault after a controversial anti-Muslim video ceased to be available through YouTube.…
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Hackers warn: We’ll hit US banks… again
Insecure PHP web apps powering zombie DDoS assault Hackers who claimed responsibility for a series of denial of service attacks against US banks in September have warned the US they plan to renew their assault shortly.…
UK cops: How we sniffed out convicted AnonOps admin ‘Nerdo’
Hint: Sometimes gamer tags give the game away Analysis of IRC logs and open source intelligence played a key role in the successful police prosecution that led up the conviction of a member of Anonymous for conspiracy to launch denial of service attacks against PayPal and other firms.…
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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook
Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an $850m botnet spree.…
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HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits
Hacktivists blamed for online banking blackout Updated HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night.…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites
Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network’s command and control servers.…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites