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Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it

ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up Exclusive   Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only two models rather than all of its products that used the same flawed firmware.…

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Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…

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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A Surrey man has been jailed for 32 months after admitting to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against an African telco.…

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Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).…

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Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more

They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…

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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more

Mikrotik routers pwned en masse, send network data to mysterious box

Researchers uncover botnet malware pouncing on security holes More than 7,500 Mikrotik routers have been compromised with malware that logs and transmits network traffic data to an unknown control server.…

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DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects

Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.…

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