There goes the weekend… A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won’t have a patch until next week.…
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Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there’s no fix yet
Cops also Cruyff cloggy couple Dutch police said in a translated news release that they have busted a local ‘bulletproof’ server hosting operation in a major takedown that also nabbed a pair of Mirai botnet operators.…
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Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things malware.…
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Time to spin the wheel of pwnage! This week, malware can infect your…. Android set-top box!
Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…
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HTTP/2, Brute! Then fall, server. Admin! Ops! The server is dead
It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court .…
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Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling
ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up Exclusive Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only two models rather than all of its products that used the same flawed firmware.…
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Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it
So lonely, so lonely without my hacked PCs Analysis Uncle Sam has infiltrated and somewhat knackered what it claims is a North Korea-operated botnet of hijacked Microsoft Windows computers.…
Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online , Oracle mega-patches , and cliams of RICO swap-gangs .…
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DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc
Feds, Google, security orgs dismantle fraud botnet, eight people charged A collection of cybersecurity companies, Google, and the Feds are sharing details on how they uncovered and dismantled a massive ad-fraud operation known as “3ve” (pronounced “Eve”.)…
They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more