New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers of Russian AV…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula.…
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Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
Zombies twitch, lurch to feet after FBI takedown The Gameover ZeuS malware is back from the dead just six weeks after a takedown operations that aimed to put a stake through the heart of the botnet, which is linked to the even more infamous CryptoLocker ransomware.…
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Gameover ZeuS botnet pulls dripping stake from heart, staggers back from the UNDEAD
RAM scrapers foisted on 60 terminals A botnet has compromised 60 point of sale (PoS) terminals by brute-force password attacks against poorly-secured connections, FireEye researchers say.…
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Brute-force bot busts shonky PoS passwords
Infosec bods infiltrate botnet, uncover crap password security Security watchers have spotted a fresh Windows-based botnet that attempts to hack into point-of-sale systems.…
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ATTACK of the Windows ZOMBIES on point-of-sale terminals
Blog networks can be force-fed more than they can chew Giant cookies could be used to create a denial of service (DoS) on blog networks, says infosec researcher Bogdan Calin.…
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MONSTER COOKIES can nom nom nom ALL THE BLOGS
McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS Despite an increase in popularity over recent months amongst botnet operators, malware-powered Bitcoin mining brings little to no financial return, say experts.…
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Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don’t bother
Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…
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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums