Not just web servers under threat – though TENS of THOUSANDS have been hit The Shellshock vulnerability has already become the focus for malicious scanning and at least one botnet but crooks are still testing the waters with the vulnerability and much worse could follow, security watchers warn.…
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Shellshock: ‘LARGER SCALE ATTACK’ on its way, warn securo-bods
Gran’s knitting site etc sucked up into pr0n spam botnet A long established smut spammer is using hacked websites to sell stolen photographs of naked celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and McKayla Maroney.…
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Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
Anti-Facebook site forced to temporarily wave Buh-Bye Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello social network hit by suspected BLOODY DDoS attack
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet, brutally batters boxes
Updated Spike malware targets Asia Bad guys are launching denial of service attacks from Windows and Linux boxes and in a sign of desperation even fridges, freezers and Raspberry Pis.…
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Desperate VXers enslave FREEZERS in DDoS bot
Avast! Belay that ‘RomanticVK’ order – there be MONSTERS Russian cops have arrested two mobile botnet cybercrime suspects as part of an ongoing investigation that’s reckoned to be the first of its kind in Russia.…
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Russian botnet suspects cuffed over romantic MMS spyware allegs
No RCE, but lots of Unix DDoS fun Holes in the Webmin Unix management tool – thankfully since patched – could allow attackers to delete data on servers, says security researcher John Gordon of the University of Texas.…
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Webmin hole allows attackers to wipe servers clean
Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties New Zealand’s largest ISP, Spark, has spent the weekend fighting off a DDOS incorrectly assumed to have a connection with last week’s nude celebrity picture scandal.…
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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP
XBox and Battle.net networks also targeted by DDoSers As Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks hosed not only Playstation Network but also XBox and Battle.net networks, it has emerged that a fake bomb threat grounded US flight 362, while Sony Entertainment Online chief John Smedley was aboard the aircraft.…
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Hack skirmish grounded Sony exec’s flight after FAKE bomb scare
Did DDoS attack on Sony kick Beeb TV offline? Updated The BBC’s web servers fell over today, taking down its online news and iPlayer services – but it’s unclear whether the outage relates to the significant Distributed Denial of Service attack hitting Sony’s gaming network right now.…
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BBC goes titsup: iPlayer to News websites down – Auntie working to fix it