Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro…
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Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues
At this point in time, the existence of a botnet comprising of tens of thousands of compromised routers and other IoT devices is not news. Nevertheless, this latest one mapped by researchers is a spec…
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Unexpectedly benevolent malware improves security of routers, IoT devices
Stallman sycophant offers password reminders and handy debug tips. Threat boffin Mario Ballano says VXers have broken into a host of routers creating a botnet dedicated solely to securing and hardening the devices.…
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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted
We have all seen the headlines: another botnet dismantled, and we can all rest easy that the threat that has been plaguing us for all those years is now no longer an issue. After the headlines, howeve…
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Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?
Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways … Google has unleashed its own application security scanner, potentially rescuing admins from ‘fiddly’ existing offerings.…
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Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a Linux backdoor boasting multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux backdoor turns your box into a DDoS platform
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
Akamai released a new security report that provides analysis and insight into the global attack threat landscape including DDoS attacks. Akamai observed a 52 percent increase in average peak band…
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Nearly half of all DDoS attacks use multiple attack vectors
Crims also move to Silverlight, according to Cisco Cisco’s annual report on the state of global cybersecurity claims spammers just won’t die and are using new tactics to avoid detection by filters; malware programmers are abandoning exploiting Java; and there’s a possible silver cloud in the Sony Pictures hacking storm.…
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2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull