Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula.…
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Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
Zombies twitch, lurch to feet after FBI takedown The Gameover ZeuS malware is back from the dead just six weeks after a takedown operations that aimed to put a stake through the heart of the botnet, which is linked to the even more infamous CryptoLocker ransomware.…
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Gameover ZeuS botnet pulls dripping stake from heart, staggers back from the UNDEAD
As noose tightens, VXer pleades: ‘Stop breaking my ballz’ Facebook has taken down a Greek botnet that at its peak compromised 50,000 accounts and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal email and banking details and pump out spam.…
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Facebook scuttles 250k-strong crypto-currency botnet
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quickly becoming the preferred method for cyber attackers to wreak havoc on the internet. With a recent spate of attention grabbing headlines focused o…
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Dispelling the myths behind DDoS attacks
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and interviews: Gathering and using threat intelligence In this interview, Tomer Teller, Security Innovation Manager at…
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Week in review: DDoS attacks becoming more effective, and how to build trust between business and IT
Blog networks can be force-fed more than they can chew Giant cookies could be used to create a denial of service (DoS) on blog networks, says infosec researcher Bogdan Calin.…
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MONSTER COOKIES can nom nom nom ALL THE BLOGS
Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Sysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been patched, reducing the threat from some devastating and cheap distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS Despite an increase in popularity over recent months amongst botnet operators, malware-powered Bitcoin mining brings little to no financial return, say experts.…
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Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don’t bother
Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…
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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums