Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’ DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process, or because people are using a potentially-troublesome “kill switch”.…
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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users
Infections spread across over 200 regions Police and private companies have taken down a massive botnet used to move malware onto compromised PCs.…
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International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…
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New phishing campaign uses 20-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
It could be you* The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
I don’t know which is worse An IoT botnet is making a nuisance of itself online after becoming a conduit for spam distribution.…
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IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS
The Play Store is looking buggier than ever A coalition of tech firms has taken down the WireX botnet, a malware network run predominantly off Android phones running subverted apps.…
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Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet
Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…
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FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we’d have to kill you
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it’s labelled “application DDoS”.…
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‘App DDoS bombs’ that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix
Millions of must-be-firewalled services sitting wide open Network security has improved little over the last 12 months – millions of vulnerable devices are still exposed on the open internet, leaving them defenceless to the next big malware attack.…
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Internet hygiene still stinks despite botnet and ransomware flood
Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…
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Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again