$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…
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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed
FBI went down to Georgia Russian national Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has pleaded guilty to charges of banking and wire fraud for his role in developing the SpyEye Trojan, which used botnets of enslaved computers to harvest financial credentials from internet users around the world.…
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Russian SpyEye author pleads guilty to starting malware onslaught
Internet of Things security scares already need to take a chill pill It’s still silly season, it seems. Tell the world that a bunch of small business broadband routers have been compromised and recruited into botnets, and the world yawns.…
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SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge
1775Sec: Um, we were trolling for, er, Aaron Swartz… Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.…
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Dropbox outage was caused by ‘buggy’ upgrade: DDoS us? You hardly know us…
Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had established 50,000-drone botnet by the middle of 2012, according to the latest Snowden leaks.…
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Just one NSA operation created a 50,000-strong botnet last year
Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently America’s NSA had established 50,000-strong botnet by the middle of 2012 using malware infections, according to the latest Edward Snowden leaks.…
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Just ONE NSA operation press-ganged a 50,000-strong botnet last year
You read that right: OPT OUT of a botnet by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del Security researchers have discovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that are already being harnessed by hackers to run a new type of drive-by attack.…
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Yet ANOTHER IE 0-day hole found: Malware-flingers already using it for drive-by badness
Bet his parents wish he’d been playing computer games A British police investigation into the massive DDoS attack against internet watchdog Spamhaus has led to the arrest of a 16-year-old London schoolboy who, it is claimed, is part of an international gang of cyber-crooks.…
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London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY
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.…