Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknopr…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
The ZeroAccess rootkit has been around for quite some time now, spying on infected users, hiding from installed AV solutions and attempting to terminate them, redirecting users' online searches to mal…
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Lucrative ZeroAccess botnet enslaves one million active computers
Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and trends employed during mult…
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Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools
GoDaddy, on of the biggest and most popular Internet domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, has suffered an outage on Monday that left many of its customers' websites temporarily av…
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Millions of GoDaddy sites go offline due to alleged DDoS attack
As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security researchers managed to coordinate the ta…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
Corero Network Security is extending its capabilities with the launch of ReputationWatch. It will identify in real-time known malicious entities and block access to ‘bad’ IP addresses ‘on-the-fly’ bas…
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Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks
Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. According to a press rele…
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Massive botnet shut down after botmaster's arrest