Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the company's clients with HTTP flood…
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CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Zombie botnet found in sample despite server takedown The Dridex banking botnet is continuing to show some signs of life even after a high-profile FBI-led disruption operation earlier this month.…
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Infosec workers swipe Q-tip across ‘net: Ew, there’s Dridex on it
Ruskies sling malicious packet to trigger denial of service. Positive Technologies researchers Timur Yunusov and Kirill Nesterov have found since-patched remote execution and denial of service vulnerabilities in a popular Huawei 4G USB modem that can allow attackers to hijack connected computers.…
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Remote code exec hijack hole found in Huawei 4G USB modems
Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi…
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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks
CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5 billion hits
Once-theoretical attack vector appears fully-formed on CloudFlare’s doorstep CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5bn hits
Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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3l33t haxxors don’t need no botnet, they just pinch passwords
‘I will do 19 years’ attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…
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Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in USC kit
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit