20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…
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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey
Engineers working on firmware updates Multiple models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers have vulnerabilities that might be exploited to create a botnet, security researchers at IOActive warn.…
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Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet
New variant of ‘Tsunami’ is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…
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‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability
Varmints cooked up variant after malware code went public Hackers have created a potent new variant of the Mirai IoT malware.…
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Strange Mirai botnet brew blamed for powerful application layer attack
Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay? Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…
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Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels
Botnets’ power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…
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DDoSing has evolved in the vacuum left by IoT’s total absence of security
Whitehouse.gov down? A software engineer is calling on netizens opposed to Donald Trump to visit the Whitehouse.gov site and overload it with traffic tomorrow.…
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Trump inauguration DDoS protest is ‘illegal’, warn securobods
Phishing, denial of service, and remote exploitation part of hacking banquet Hackers of unknown origin cut power supplies in Ukraine for a second time in 12 months as part of wide-ranging attacks that hit the country in December.…
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Crims shut off Ukraine power in wide-ranging anniversary hacks
Happy New Year! Updated Just days into the new year, and poor old 123-Reg is already experiencing problems, this time in the form of a DDoS attack – something it is no stranger to.…
2016 sucked. 2017 won’t be much better, sorry DDoS attacks have been around since at least 2000, and they’re not going away. In fact, as the number of devices online grows, the volume and velocity of these attacks is also increasing.…
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DDoS in 2017: Strap yourself in for a bumpy ride