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Mirai botnet: Three admit creating and running attack tool

Three men admit creating and running Mirai, a botnet used to block access to much of the web.

Lloyds Bank was hit by a denial of service attack nearly two weeks ago that disrupted online access.

Minecraft, the game adored by millions of children, is allegedly at the heart of the web’s biggest net attack.

Thirty four people, including teenagers, are arrested after an international police operation involving EU and US authorities.

China’s Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against those blaming Chinese firms for botnets.

A distributed denial of service (or DDoS) attack is an attempt to take a website offline by overwhelming it with internet traffic.

Ireland’s National Lottery website and ticket machines were thrown offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.

NatWest Bank has blamed earlier problems with its website on a series of deliberate attacks, known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS)

Virtual private network Hola downplays concerns that its 47 million users could become part of a massive botnet used for illegal activity.