This isn’t your grandma’s DDoS Today’s distributed denial of service attacks are different than the kinds that we saw at the dawn of the millennium when the threat emerged. They’re becoming more nuanced, and subtle – and they could result in a lot more than a downed web server.…
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Inside the World of the Dark DDoS
Cops find 5000 stolen active credit cards at carder’s crib Darkode bot bandit Rory Stephen Guidry has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for selling a botnet containing 5000 enslaved machines, and stealing US$80,000 (£72,069, A$111,728) in Bitcoins and 5000 active credit cards.…
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Darkode Bitcoin bot bandit gets year and a day in US cooler
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a botnet dedicated to finding account credentials on websites and testing the logins it finds on banks.…
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Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we’re told.…
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Cyber-underworld price list revealed: $500 for company email inbox, $1,200 passports, etc
This is kind of a big deal because the mess is in 14.04 LTS, expiry date 2019 Ubuntu has patched four Linux kernel vulnerabilities that allowed for arbitrary code execution and denial of service attacjs.…
News sites bork-bork-borked for spreading ‘false propaganda’ News outlets in Sweden went dark over the weekend in the face of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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Swedish sysadmins reach for the hex key, reassemble services after weekend DDoS
CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…
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Cyber-crooks now prefer ransomware to botnets. Yep, firms are paying up
600,000 servers are vulnerable to this little-known protocol Security researchers have discovered a new vector for DDoS amplification attacks – and it’s quite literally trivial.…
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Trivial path for DDoS amplification attacks found by infosec bods
Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai’s networking wonks.…
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DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank
Reverse proxying traffic might save headaches Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks.…
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Google punts freebie DDoS shield to hacks, human rights worthies