DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
Desperate VXers enslave FREEZERS in DDoS bot
Updated Spike malware targets Asia Bad guys are launching denial of service attacks from Windows and Linux boxes and in a sign of desperation even fridges, freezers and Raspberry Pis.…
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Desperate VXers enslave FREEZERS in DDoS bot
BLAM, BLAM, BLAM… nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom on Call of Duty
JUST before you blasted 2 ‘copters with 1 rocket launcher Hackers from the group Lizard Squad have reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on major gaming industry websites.…
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BLAM, BLAM, BLAM… nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom on Call of Duty
Attackers tapping on SNMP door to see if it’s open
SANS spots new, dumb attack Google’s DNS IP address is being spoofed by an attacker, apparently in an attempt to DDoS hosts vulnerable to a flaw in the SNMP protocol.…
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Attackers tapping on SNMP door to see if it’s open
Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
OMG, it reconfigures your firewall… SAVE yourselves, Linux lords A router-to-router bot first detected two years ago has evolved – and now has the capability to reconfigure the firewalls of its victims.…
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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP
Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties New Zealand’s largest ISP, Spark, has spent the weekend fighting off a DDOS incorrectly assumed to have a connection with last week’s nude celebrity picture scandal.…
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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP
Netflix releases home-grown DDoS detectors
Planning on haxing Netflix? Don’t plan it on Facebook NetFlix’s security team has given the open source treatment to three tools it uses to monitor the internet and gather evidence of planned attacks against its infrastructure.…
Brute-force bot busts shonky PoS passwords
RAM scrapers foisted on 60 terminals A botnet has compromised 60 point of sale (PoS) terminals by brute-force password attacks against poorly-secured connections, FireEye researchers say.…
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Cybercrooks breed SELF-CLONING MUTANT that STEALS your BANK DETAILS
Fresh Cridex variant plays merry hell via email Cybercrooks have put together a botnet client which bundles in worm-like functionality that gives it the potential to spread quickly.…
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Cybercrooks breed SELF-CLONING MUTANT that STEALS your BANK DETAILS