The Mevade Trojan and botnet have gained unexpected notoriety when it turned out that the majority of the recent, sudden and massive uptick in Tor users was the result of it adding Tor as a method of …
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Tor-using Mevade botnet is stealthy new version of old threat
When, in late August, China's Domain Name Service was targeted by a huge DDoS attack which ultimately lead to many websites being completely inaccessible for a period of time, the questions everybody …
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Amateur hacker behind DDoS attack on China?
Prolexic, detailed the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities. The DDoS attacks, which can pack a powerful punch by the use of reflection and amplificat…
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Multiplayer games and DoS attacks
Earlier this year, US-CERT has deemed it important to release an alert about publicly accessible open recursive DNS servers that are increasingly being used in DNS amplification attacks – a very effec…
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C&C PHP script for staging DDoS attacks sold on underground forums
There are several dates throughout the year that are notorious for wreaking havoc on businesses via DDoS attacks, data breaches and even malware or botnet assaults. According to Radware, there ar…
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Timing is an influential risk-factor for cyber attacks
When Project Tor director Roger Dingledine recently drew the public's attention to the unusual and considerable rise in the number of Tor users, he invited people to speculate and share plausible expl…
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Massive spike of Tor users caused by Mevade botnet
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue to be on the rise, which is no surprise given our ever-growing dependency on Web-based services, coupled with the fact that these attacks are relatively cheap …
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Understanding and defending against Denial of Service attacks
When first unearthed three months ago, the Obad Android Trojan has fascinated researchers with its sophistication. Difficult to analyze, using a bug in the Android OS to extend Device Administrato…
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Obad Android Trojan distributed via mobile botnets
Prolexic shared attack signatures and details that are helpful to detect and stop DDoS attacks from the Drive DDoS toolkit, an attack tool often used as a source of distraction while criminals break i…
Kelihos is a botnet which utilizes P2P communication to maintain its CnC Network. With all of the attention around Kelihos, it should be no surprise that 30/45 AV vendors are detecting the latest inst…
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Kelihos botnet: What victims can expect