Bears bearing botnets? The soaring value of crypto-currency Bitcoin stuttered slightly last night – after a main exchange for the currency was flooded with network traffic and Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet was suspended.…
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Bitcoin exchange: Greedy traders to blame for DDoS attack
Crooks blasting public-safety phone lines with calls The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has cautioned public-safety call centers against the rise of so-called telephony denial of service (TDoS) attacks, which it says have the potential to cripple local telephone exchanges.…
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Call centers under attack in targeted cyber-blackmail scheme
Bombardment without collateral damage – amazing Analysis The massive 300Gbit-a-second DDoS attack against anti-spam non-profit Spamhaus this week didn’t actually break the internet’s backbone, contrary to many early reports.…
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BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries
Plucky mail scrubbers battle internet carpet bombers Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has recovered from possibly the largest ?DDoS? attack in history.…
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BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY hammers Spamhaus
Insecure PHP web apps powering zombie DDoS assault Hackers who claimed responsibility for a series of denial of service attacks against US banks in September have warned the US they plan to renew their assault shortly.…
Banking sector DDoSers ‘used botnets’, say security boffins Hackers responsible for an ongoing series of attacks against US banks over the past week may be tapping into botnets to power their assaults, according to security researchers. Meanwhile, the Financial Services ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center) continues to advise banks to be prepared for attack.…
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Zombies are attacking America – researchers
Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network’s command and control servers.…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites
‘Undesirable people’ are all over us WHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.…
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WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems
Much bigger than Symantec says Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…
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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates
Pumping spam, entering backdoors again almost right away Security researchers have warned that the resurrected Kelihos botnet blasted off the face of the web yesterday is still alive.…
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Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre