But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
It could be you* The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
‘App DDoS bombs’ that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it’s labelled “application DDoS”.…
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‘App DDoS bombs’ that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix
Don’t all rush out at once, but there are a million devices ripe to be the next big botnet
As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse A wormable vulnerability involving an estimated one million digital video recorders (DVR) is at risk of creating a Mirai-style botnet, security researchers warn.…
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World’s worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam
IT LIVES! Cybercriminals behind the Necurs botnet have reactivated the zombie network and returned to their original business of using compromised machines as conduits for spam distribution.…
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World’s worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam
Dormant Linux kernel vulnerability finally slayed
Just, er, eight years later A recently resolved vulnerability in the Linux kernel that had the potential to allow an attacker to gain privilege escalation or cause denial of service went undiscovered for seven years.…
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Dormant Linux kernel vulnerability finally slayed
Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets
Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently gotten their hands on several variants of the threat, and have discovered the following things: It comes in the form of an ELF file (typical for executable files in Unix and Unix-like systems) It targets mostly routers, DVR or WebIP cameras, Linux servers, and Internet of Things devices … More ?
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Luabot malware used to launch DDoS attacks
A security researcher discovered a Trojan that infects Linux platforms used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to MalwareMustDie, the security researcher responsible for the discovery, the malware is written in the Lua programming language (version 5.3.0). The malware, dubbed Linux/Luabot, targets the Linux operating system, used often in web servers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Trojan issues botnet commands to affected systems, MalwareMustDie wrote in a blog post published on Monday. “There are plenty new ELF malware coming & lurking our network recently & hitting out Linux layer IoT and services badly,” MalwareMustDie wrote in the blog post. The researcher advised security professionals to “watch for unusual hazards for the security of our 24/7 running Linux nodes.” Last week, security firm Sucuri disclosed vulnerabilities in IoT home routers that were exploited to launch an application-level DDoS attack. The Strider cyberespionage group disclosed by Symantec last month also used modules written in Lua. Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/luabot-malware-used-to-launch-ddos-attacks/article/520814/
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Luabot malware used to launch DDoS attacks
Ubuntu plugs code exec, DoS Linux kernel holes
This is kind of a big deal because the mess is in 14.04 LTS, expiry date 2019 Ubuntu has patched four Linux kernel vulnerabilities that allowed for arbitrary code execution and denial of service attacjs.…
ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks
After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours on end in the last week.
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ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks