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EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control

Smugness levels cut among Apple fanbois Security firm Bitdefender has issued an alert about a malicious app that hands over control of Macs to criminals via Tor.…

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ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami – still gets washed offline

Untrustworthy criminals … who’d have thought? After a crushing distributed denial of service attack against its servers and ISPs, secure email service ProtonMail says it has paid the ransom demanded by its attackers – who promptly stiffed the Swiss firm.…

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Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing

The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake forwarded Xerox scans and …

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The new and improved Kelihos botnet

As announced by Kaspersky Lab researchers and confirmed by Microsoft, the C&C and backup infrastructure of the original Kelihos/Hlux botnet is still down after their joint action that resulted in its …

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Hacker allegedly leaks 100K Facebook account credentials of Arab users

The slew of hacks, leaks of credit card information, DDoS attacks and defacements executed by Arab and Israeli hackers that transferred part of the longstanding, real world conflict to the Internet ha…

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Kelihos malware author, botnet herder named by Microsoft

Microsoft has named a new defendant in the ongoing Kelihos case. His name is Andrey N. Sabelnikov, of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, and is believed to have written the code for and either cr…

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