They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more
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No, the Mirai botnet masters aren’t going to jail. Why? ‘Cos they help Feds nab cyber-crims
Probation, comm service for poachers turned gamekeepers The three brains behind the Mirai malware, which infects and pressgangs Internet-of-Things devices into a botnet army, have avoided jail.…
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No, the Mirai botnet masters aren’t going to jail. Why? ‘Cos they help Feds nab cyber-crims
Congress wants CVE stability, China wants your LinkedIn details, and Adobe wants you to patch Creative Cloud
Also: Belarus barely brushes botnet builder’s bankroll Another week has come and gone. This one included some Fortnite flaws , a nasty Intel bug , and a voting machine maker whining about hacking contests.…
Cisco smells a RAT in Breaking Security’s Remcos PC wrangler
Researchers say pentesting software being used for botnets Cisco Talos says criminals are using one research company’s testing tools to set up and run botnets.…
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Castaway hacker guilty of sedating children’s hospital computers
He’ll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour after DDoS strike on medics A self-styled Anonymous hacker who attempted to flee the US in a sailboat has been convicted of two felonies for his role in a 2014 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a children’s hospital.…
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US senators get digging to find out the truth about FCC DDoS attack
And why serial self-promoter John McAfee is a security expert on Russian hacking Senate Democrats are pressing government officials to explain their claims on election tampering and cyberattacks.…
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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login
These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server.…
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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login
FBI agents take aim at VPNFilter botnet, point finger at Russia, yell ‘national security threat’
Feds warn admins malware is rather tough to destroy The FBI says it is taking steps to stop the spread of the VPNFilter malware and botnet, warning that it’s a national security issue.…
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Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare
DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are trying to overwhelm application processes instead.…
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Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare
Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm