Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder’s crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…
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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars
Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…
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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet
Empty threats from faux hackers doing the rounds again What kind of a grifter pretends he’s going to DDoS you? The kind that easily makes off with a lot of cash, it seems. “Hackers” who have been making empty DDoS threats while posing as the Armada Collective appear to have have moved on.…
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Did your UK biz just pay £1,500 to stop a DDoS? You’ve been had
‘Armada Collective’ threatens to carry out DDoS attacks, never actually attacks Reputation is everything in business: it appears a bunch of canny scammers have stolen the identity of a hacking squad to make some serious bank.…
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Website extortionists rake in over $100,000 without lifting a finger
Anti-dolphin-munching mission DDoSed car-maker Nissan A pair of Akamai researchers are warning that entities using the name and iconography of hacker collective Anonymous will soon expand a six-year distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack campaign against Japan to other whale-and-dolphin-eating nations.…
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Anonymous whales on Denmark, Iceland with OpKillingBay DDoS
Wants props for World of Warcraft attack too Lizard Squad has hit gaming firm Blizzard’s servers with a massive DDoS attack.…
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Lizard Squad back to blast Blizzard’s gaming hub
$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we’re told.…
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Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc
Electronic Tribulation Army has anger management problems Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleading guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against security consultancy mccrewsecurity.com .…
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Man pleads guilty for serving white hat with DoS, swearbot, sex toys
Single point of failure key in takedown Security researchers have teamed up with authorities in Ukraine to take down a spam-spewing Linux-infesting botnet.…
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Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored