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
? Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ? Aficionados of salacious smut sites in the UK and Canada are picking up some nasty software that infects systems by using corrupted pop-under adverts.…
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Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind
IT LIVES! Cybercriminals behind the Necurs botnet have reactivated the zombie network and returned to their original business of using compromised machines as conduits for spam distribution.…
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World’s worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam
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
Krebs says he’s fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…
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Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author
Another reason to avoid those DEF CON charging stations. Google has capped a dangerous but somewhat obscure boot mode vulnerability that allowed infected PCs and chargers to put top end Nexus phones into denial of service states.…
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Google caps punch-yourself-in-the-face malicious charger hack
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.…
Synchronise your watches before someone exploits DDOS bug, or nine other nasties The maintainers of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) have pushed out a patch for ten security vulnerabilities.…
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It’s time: Patch Network Time Protocol before it loses track of time
It’s just a ‘temporary inconvenience’, says agency The public-facing website for the UK’s National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.…
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UK’s ‘FBI’ hit by DDoS barrage
Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you’re attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…
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Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system