CCTV cameras? You’ve been looking in the wrong place Security researchers have discovered a “missing link” in the Mirai botnet that may prompt a rethink in what makes up the zombie network.…
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Origin of the beasties: Mirai botnet missing link revealed as DVR player
Google engineers offer guidance to keep application developers from shooting themselves in the foot. In the wake of the last month’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a DNS management service, Google engineers want to remind application developers that self-harm represents a more realistic risk.…
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How to avoid DDoSing yourself
It’s just a ‘temporary inconvenience’, says agency The public-facing website for the UK’s National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.…
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UK’s ‘FBI’ hit by DDoS barrage
Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you’re attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…
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Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system
Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks A revamped version of the Torte botnet malware is turning insecure CMS servers into spam-spewing zombies.…
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SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged
Cops say net crims launched 1.7 million attacks from 15 year-old’s creation. A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that offered distributed denial of service (DDoS)-as-a-service.…
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Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool
Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums has killed off its “server stress test” DDoS-for-hire section.…
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Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai “The race that stops a nation” could also stop betting agencies if the regular barrage of timely distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) extortionists utilise insecure embedded devices, Akamai says.…
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Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’
Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network.…
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Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet
SOHOpeless CCTVs and video recorders It shouldn’t surprise anyone that closed circuit television (CCTV) rigs are becoming the world’s favourite botnet hosts: pretty much any time a security researcher looks at a camera, it turns out to be a buggy mess.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan