Nowhere near as bad as its ten-day Christmas cracker, but something seems to be afoot Cloud hosting outfit Linode has again come under significant denial of service (DoS) attack.…
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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks
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Blizzard blighted by another DDoS storm
Someone likes fragging servers Blizzard, the game developer behind World of Warcraft and Overwatch, was hit by another DDoS attack on Tuesday.…
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Blizzard blighted by another DDoS storm
Meet DDoSCoin, the cryptocurrency that pays when you p0wn
Proof-of-work turned to nefarious purposes, like taking down a Census A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Meet DDoSCoin, the cryptocurrency that pays when you p0wn
DDoS trends: Bigger, badder but not longer
10Gbps is the new norm, warns Arbor Networks DDoS attacks once again escalated in both size and frequency during the first six months of 2016.…
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DDoS trends: Bigger, badder but not longer
EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control
Smugness levels cut among Apple fanbois Security firm Bitdefender has issued an alert about a malicious app that hands over control of Macs to criminals via Tor.…
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EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control
Chinese gambling site served near record-breaking complex DDoS
Nine vectors used as bad guys try to beat defenders. A chinese gambling company has been pulverised with multiple nine-vector, 470 Gbps, 110 million packet-per-second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, some of the biggest and most complex ever recorded.…
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Inside the World of the Dark DDoS
This isn’t your grandma’s DDoS Today’s distributed denial of service attacks are different than the kinds that we saw at the dawn of the millennium when the threat emerged. They’re becoming more nuanced, and subtle – and they could result in a lot more than a downed web server.…
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Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder’s crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a botnet dedicated to finding account credentials on websites and testing the logins it finds on banks.…
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Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts
Enlist phones in ad fraud, premium SMS, loser DDoS Malicious Android applications have bypassed Google’s Play store security checks to enslave infected devices into distributed denial of service attack, advertising fraud, and spam botnets.…
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Malicious Android apps slip into Google Play, top third party charts