JTRIG active intelligence unit boasts of bugging and burgling At the start of this week, documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed DDOS attacks on chatrooms by a British online intelligence unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). Now he has released a new trove showing that JTRIG is about much more than purely online annoyances.…
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Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and ‘honey traps’
Botnet decap should be a team effort – ex-detective infosec bod Botnet takedowns need to be improved if the industry is to avoid the risk of creating more problems than it solves every time its decapitates a zombie network, according to a former Scotland Yard detective turned security researcher.…
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Must try HARDER, infosec lads: We’re RUBBISH at killing ZOMBIES
What could possibly go wrong other than a C&C net sharing your colo barn’s IP address? Telstra is preparing to get proactive with malware, announcing that it will be implementing a DNS-based blocker to prevent customer systems from contact known command-and-control servers.…
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Telstra to DNS-block botnet C&Cs with unknown blacklist
Stupid Redmond kicked over our honeypots, wail white hats Security researchers are complaining about collateral damage from the latest botnet take-down efforts by Microsoft and its partners.…
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Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu
The undead are coming, and they have 1Gbps pipes! A critical vulnerability in trendy web programming kit Ruby on Rails is being abused to conscript hacked website servers into a growing botnet army.…
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Ruby on Fails: Zombie SERVER army built thanks to Rails bug
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and reviews: How to make smart grids To prepare for a successful roll-out of smart grids, a new ENISA study proposes 10 …
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Week in review: Grum botnet shutdown, Android malware, and Madi Trojan targeting the Middle East
‘Undesirable people’ are all over us WHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.…
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WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems