Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder’s crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…
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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a botnet dedicated to finding account credentials on websites and testing the logins it finds on banks.…
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Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
Enlist phones in ad fraud, premium SMS, loser DDoS Malicious Android applications have bypassed Google’s Play store security checks to enslave infected devices into distributed denial of service attack, advertising fraud, and spam botnets.…
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Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts
Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…
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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet
$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we’re told.…
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Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc
Electronic Tribulation Army has anger management problems Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleading guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against security consultancy mccrewsecurity.com .…
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Man pleads guilty for serving white hat with DoS, swearbot, sex toys
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
An unwelcome PITSTOP Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday.…
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DDoS protection biz Incapsula knackers its customers’ websites
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