Hint: Sometimes gamer tags give the game away Analysis of IRC logs and open source intelligence played a key role in the successful police prosecution that led up the conviction of a member of Anonymous for conspiracy to launch denial of service attacks against PayPal and other firms.…
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UK cops: How we sniffed out convicted AnonOps admin ‘Nerdo’
Botnet herders upgrade malware, still making bank – Sophos The stealthy ZeroAccess botnet commands a zombie army of more than one million machines, according to new research.…
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Crooks can milk ‘$100k a day’ from 1-million-zombie ZeroAccess army
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
Miscreants offer to down mobe and fixed line services for $20 a day Cybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just $20 a day.…
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DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?
‘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