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Tech support scammers use denial of service bug to hang victims

Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters’ phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…

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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’

Yet firm refuses to say the word DDoS. What are they hiding? Outage-hit security firm Barracuda appears to have been struck down by a DDoS – though the firm says it’s still investigating and refuses to confirm or deny it.…

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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’

Universal hijack hole turns DIY Wix blogs into botnets

Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability.…

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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood

IT admins are having a hell of an evening? You can bet on it! Well, on another website William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…

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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood

Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool

Cops say net crims launched 1.7 million attacks from 15 year-old’s creation. A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that offered distributed denial of service (DDoS)-as-a-service.…

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Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool

Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’

Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai “The race that stops a nation” could also stop betting agencies if the regular barrage of timely distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) extortionists utilise insecure embedded devices, Akamai says.…

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Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’

Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army

And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an anti-worm “nematode” that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…

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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army

Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet

Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network.…

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SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets

Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…

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