Should have stayed under the skirt of Mother Russia. Just a thought Dimitry Belorossov – a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan – has been sentenced to four years and six months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud.…
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Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet
Once-theoretical attack vector appears fully-formed on CloudFlare’s doorstep CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5bn hits
CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5 billion hits
Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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3l33t haxxors don’t need no botnet, they just pinch passwords
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in USC kit
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
Or not, if you look at the numbers Australia has won the dubious honour of being named in the global top-10 DDoS sources, and in its quarterly State of the Internet report, Akamai reckons our tiny number of high-speed fibre broadband users are the cause.…
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NBN vaults Australia into global top-10 … DDoS attack sources
‘There will be more attacks today,’ attacker proudly tells El Reg The website for Greater Manchester Police was targeted by two Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks yesterday, which rendered the site unavailable for more than two hours. The operators of two Twitter accounts have claimed responsibility.…
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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted
Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…
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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker