Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…
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ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached
Maybe if you hadn’t paid the ransom to the wrong attackers it would be over Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.…
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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Using blog site and Twitter to issue updates Secure webmail outfit ProtonMail is still fighting against a sustained DDoS attack that has left its service largely unavailable since Tuesday.…
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ProtonMail still under attack by DDoS bombardment
C&C malware factory The FBI has teamed up with security vendors to disrupt the operations of Dridex banking Trojan.…
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FBI takes down Dridex botnet, seizes servers, arrests suspect
Hacker fingered for heroin stunt takes the stand A Ukrainian man extradited from Italy has gone on trial in New Jersey accused of running a botnet and dealing in stolen credit cards.…
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Alleged Ukrainian botnet herder faces 43 years after Italian job snafu
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
Because you can’t be telepresent when the bad guys are DOSing you Cisco TelePresence kit and software need patching after the company turned up vulnerabilities that open them up to remote command injection and denial of service attacks.…
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Time to patch your Cisco TelePresence systems
Site flooded with 2.6 billion requests an hour Chinese activist site Greatfire.org which masks censored traffic into the country is under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is racking up $30,000 a day in server costs.…
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Massive DDoS racks up $30,000-a-day Amazon bill for China activists
Well, it’s statistically reasonably likely. Just update to 3.8.1, OK? Tens of thousands of vulnerable WordPress sites have been co-opted into a server-based botnet being used to run DDoS attacks.…
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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks
Report in Japan says ‘150,000 hits per second’ A Japanese newspaper is reporting that during the spectacular collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, the operation’s servers were also suffering a large-scale DDOS attack.…
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Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse