Ah, great. Ave AV Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus.…
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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
Isolated attacks can add up to concerted malbot action , say boffins Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a tool capable of predicting future botnet attacks while also distinguishing between human and automated campaigns.…
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Israeli academics claim they can predict botnet attacks
First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…
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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks
Attack KO’d the website and ticket machines A DDoS attack disrupted the Irish National Lottery’s website and ticket machines on Wednesday (January 20).…
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Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle’s National Lottery
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road … hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?
Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…
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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing
DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK’s academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent and continuous DDoS attack against the academic computer network Janet continues to stretch resources.…
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Day 2: UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack
Skilled VXers have built 25 plugins, made 4000 variants, say crack security team Botconf One of the world’s most successful, oldest, and largest botnets is an underestimated and largely-unknown threat that has over time infected 15 million machines and made millions plundering bank accounts.…
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Ponmocup is the ’15 million’ machine botnet you’ve never heard of
Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…
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ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached