Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…
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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet
Funny how it always gets targeted at the end of term… Blighty’s government-funded educational network Janet has once again been hit by a cyber attack, with a fresh wave of DDoS attacks launched against the network this morning.…
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Academic network Janet clobbered with DDoS attacks – again
Wants props for World of Warcraft attack too Lizard Squad has hit gaming firm Blizzard’s servers with a massive DDoS attack.…
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Lizard Squad back to blast Blizzard’s gaming hub
$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we’re told.…
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Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc
Target appears to have been two Chinese domain names The internet’s root servers were not the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in December which for a short time took out four of the 13 pillars of the global network.…
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DNS root server attack was not aimed at root servers – infosec bods
An unwelcome PITSTOP Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday.…
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DDoS protection biz Incapsula knackers its customers’ websites
Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai’s networking wonks.…
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DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank
Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
Some in the IEEE reckon it’d be a good idea, before your toaster burns more than bread The Internet toaster that’s browning your crumpets, talking to its home servers, and participating in a ransomware-distributing botnet should get the kind of cyber-safety testing that it gets for physical safety.…
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Does the Internet of Things need an indie security assessor?
Net scum target florists on day of commercialised romance Net scum have bashed florists with distributed denial of service attacks over Valentine’s Day in a bid to extract ransoms, security analysts say.…
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Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day means DDoS for you