‘Armada Collective’ threatens to carry out DDoS attacks, never actually attacks Reputation is everything in business: it appears a bunch of canny scammers have stolen the identity of a hacking squad to make some serious bank.…
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Website extortionists rake in over $100,000 without lifting a finger
Funny how it always gets targeted at the end of term… Blighty’s government-funded educational network Janet has once again been hit by a cyber attack, with a fresh wave of DDoS attacks launched against the network this morning.…
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Academic network Janet clobbered with DDoS attacks – again
Single point of failure key in takedown Security researchers have teamed up with authorities in Ukraine to take down a spam-spewing Linux-infesting botnet.…
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Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored
This is kind of a big deal because the mess is in 14.04 LTS, expiry date 2019 Ubuntu has patched four Linux kernel vulnerabilities that allowed for arbitrary code execution and denial of service attacjs.…
Target appears to have been two Chinese domain names The internet’s root servers were not the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in December which for a short time took out four of the 13 pillars of the global network.…
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DNS root server attack was not aimed at root servers – infosec bods
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
CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…
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Cyber-crooks now prefer ransomware to botnets. Yep, firms are paying up
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
$66 a pop, if you’re the sort who pays for these things OPSEC mistakes by a cybercrook have allowed security researchers to estimate the revenue of a Russian DDoS booter merchant.…
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OPSEC mistakes spill Russian DDoS scum’s payment secrets
Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai’s networking wonks.…
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DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank