These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server.…
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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login
Bad news if you’ve been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…
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Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’
Feds warn admins malware is rather tough to destroy The FBI says it is taking steps to stop the spread of the VPNFilter malware and botnet, warning that it’s a national security issue.…
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FBI agents take aim at VPNFilter botnet, point finger at Russia, yell ‘national security threat’
DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are trying to overwhelm application processes instead.…
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Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare
Researchers infected devices and totted up all the ‘leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs’ Website in 2016 cost device owners over $US320,000.…
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Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums Cops yesterday cuffed IT admins behind the “world’s biggest DDoS marketplace”, webstresser.org, Europol confirmed today.…
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World’s biggest DDoS-for-hire souk shuttered, masterminds cuffed
Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first case of a major industrial control system network infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.…
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Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins
Researchers: Code designed to hit Linux devices A new variant of the notorious Mirai malware is exploiting kit with ARC processors.…
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New Mirai botnet species ‘Okiru’ hunts for ARC-based kit
Three men admit creating and running Mirai, a botnet used to block access to much of the web.
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Mirai botnet: Three admit creating and running attack tool