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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…

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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…

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Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Chinese authorities says massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain

Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…

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GitHub code repository rocked by ‘very large DDoS’ attack

Second attack this month sees hackers git GitHub San Francisco–based GitHub, the online repository popular among software developers, suffered a major service outage on Thursday morning due to what it characterizes as a “very large DDoS attack.”… Learn how to leverage change for better IT And win a top of the range HP Spectre Ultrabook courtesy of HP and The Register! Click here to enter!

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Microsoft and FBI storm ramparts of Citadel botnets

Next: The hunt for evil botnet overlord ‘Aquabox’ The ZeuS-derived Citadel botnet, which rose to public prominence last year, is being progressively disabled by Microsoft and the FBI is on the hunt for its masters.…

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Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it

‘All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience’ Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

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Bitcoin exchange: Greedy traders to blame for DDoS attack

Bears bearing botnets? The soaring value of crypto-currency Bitcoin stuttered slightly last night – after a main exchange for the currency was flooded with network traffic and Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet was suspended.…

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