I don’t know which is worse An IoT botnet is making a nuisance of itself online after becoming a conduit for spam distribution.…
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IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS
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Top tip, hacker newbs: Don’t use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads
To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…
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Top tip, hacker newbs: Don’t use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads
Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet
The Play Store is looking buggier than ever A coalition of tech firms has taken down the WireX botnet, a malware network run predominantly off Android phones running subverted apps.…
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DreamHost smashed in DDoS attack: Who’s to blame? Take a guess…
Is it the alt-right or anti-fascists? Most likely the latter Web hosting biz DreamHost has been largely crippled today by a distributed denial of service attack, bringing down most of its services.…
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FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we’d have to kill you
Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…
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So, FCC, how about that massive DDoS? Hello? Hello…? You still there?
Like trying to get blood out of a stone Updated America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has declined to spare any more details on the cyber-assault that supposedly downed its website shortly after it announced its intent to kill net neutrality.…
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It’s 2017, and UPnP is helping black-hats run banking malware
Pinkslipbot malware copies Conflicker for C&C channel Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it’s using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…
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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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Internet hygiene still stinks despite botnet and ransomware flood
Millions of must-be-firewalled services sitting wide open Network security has improved little over the last 12 months – millions of vulnerable devices are still exposed on the open internet, leaving them defenceless to the next big malware attack.…
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Internet hygiene still stinks despite botnet and ransomware flood
DDoS attack brings Qatar’s Al Jazeera website to its knees
Hacking attempts come amid diplomatic crisis in the Gulf Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera yesterday said it was being targeted with systematic hacking attempts.…
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DDoS attack brings Qatar’s Al Jazeera website to its knees