Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the company's clients with HTTP flood…
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CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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3l33t haxxors don’t need no botnet, they just pinch passwords
What’s that big spike on site performance graph? GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.…
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GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: LizardSquad's DDoS service is powered by hacked home routers The preponderance of routers represented in the botnet …
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Week in review: Google discloses Windows flaw, French sites under attack, Android users in danger
Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19,000 websites of French-based companies have been targeted by cyber attack…
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19,000 French websites hit by DDoS, defaced in wake of terror attack
Gran’s knitting site etc sucked up into pr0n spam botnet A long established smut spammer is using hacked websites to sell stolen photographs of naked celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and McKayla Maroney.…
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Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
Akamai announced a new global DDoS attack report, which shows that in Q1, DDoS attackers relied less upon traditional botnet infection in favor of reflection and amplification techniques. “Instea…
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Attackers use reflection techniques for larger DDoS attacks
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Cost of Advanced Evasion Techniques in recent data breaches A new report by McAfee examines the controversy…
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Week in review: AET costs, Windows XP deadline, routers expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks
Anonymous is mostly known for their real-life and online protests, DDoS attacks, and shaming of businesses and government organizations by publicly releasing confidential data stolen from their server…
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Anonymous hacks police forum, sends emails to police officers
Less than a month since Microsoft's revelation that it had disrupted the functioning of the Nitol botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain (3322.org) which was also hosting over 500 different strain…
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Microsoft settles Nitol botnet lawsuit