Low Orbit Ion Cannon claims another victim A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $183,000 after pleading guilty to taking part in an Anonymous DDoS attack against the servers of Koch Industries for one minute.…
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One-minute Koch-blocking earns attacker two years, massive fine
Botnet decap should be a team effort – ex-detective infosec bod Botnet takedowns need to be improved if the industry is to avoid the risk of creating more problems than it solves every time its decapitates a zombie network, according to a former Scotland Yard detective turned security researcher.…
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Must try HARDER, infosec lads: We’re RUBBISH at killing ZOMBIES
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
Seoul police believe country’s love of gaming will be turned upon itself South Korea’s National Police Agency (NPA) is warning users not to download unofficial online games as they may contain malware designed by the North to compromise machines which can then be used to launch DDoS attacks on the country.…
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Norks seed online games with malware in fiendish DDoS plot
Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…
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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths
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
What could possibly go wrong other than a C&C net sharing your colo barn’s IP address? Telstra is preparing to get proactive with malware, announcing that it will be implementing a DNS-based blocker to prevent customer systems from contact known command-and-control servers.…
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Telstra to DNS-block botnet C&Cs with unknown blacklist
Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet
Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…
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Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet
‘No humans are behind these clients’ The recent spike in traffic on the Tor anonymizing relay network is probably due to botnet activity rather than any recent political developments, research by Tor Project members has concluded.…
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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS