Skilled VXers have built 25 plugins, made 4000 variants, say crack security team Botconf One of the world’s most successful, oldest, and largest botnets is an underestimated and largely-unknown threat that has over time infected 15 million machines and made millions plundering bank accounts.…
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Ponmocup is the ’15 million’ machine botnet you’ve never heard of
When bragging of your illegal exploits, leave off your real name A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…
Direct message command and control hides in the walla walla rhubarb. London security researcher Paul Amar has built a tool capable of exploiting Twitter’s extended direct messaging function for covert botnet command and control.…
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Twitter DM character limit liberation spells opportunity for botnets
Concerted assaults on five providers and counting FastMail has become the latest web services company to get taken down by distributed denial of service (DDoS) raiders who are trying to extort Bitcoins in exchange for internet access.…
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FastMail falls over as web service extortionists widen attacks and up their prices
Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…
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ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached
Maybe if you hadn’t paid the ransom to the wrong attackers it would be over Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.…
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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Website unable to process online transactions Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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Swedbank smacked by DDoS attack
Using blog site and Twitter to issue updates Secure webmail outfit ProtonMail is still fighting against a sustained DDoS attack that has left its service largely unavailable since Tuesday.…
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ProtonMail still under attack by DDoS bombardment
Zombie botnet found in sample despite server takedown The Dridex banking botnet is continuing to show some signs of life even after a high-profile FBI-led disruption operation earlier this month.…
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Infosec workers swipe Q-tip across ‘net: Ew, there’s Dridex on it
70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial of service attack protection providers like CloudFlare, Prolexic and Incapsula can be revealed using a simple web tool built on newly uncovered flaws, according to a recent paper.…
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DDoS defences spiked by CloudPiercer tool – paper