Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently America’s NSA had established 50,000-strong botnet by the middle of 2012 using malware infections, according to the latest Edward Snowden leaks.…
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Just ONE NSA operation press-ganged a 50,000-strong botnet last year
You read that right: OPT OUT of a botnet by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del Security researchers have discovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that are already being harnessed by hackers to run a new type of drive-by attack.…
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Yet ANOTHER IE 0-day hole found: Malware-flingers already using it for drive-by badness
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’
Spammy botnet got sneaky Security researchers believe they have identified the botnet responsible for a recent spike in traffic on the anonymizing Tor network, but the exact purpose of the malware remains unclear.…
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Malware culprit fingered in mysterious Tor traffic spike