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Last month’s botnet DDoS happened because a gamer was mad at PSN

Remember last month, when a Mirai botnet attack brought down half the internet? On October 21, a Distributed Denial of service attack that employed swarms of unsecured “Internet of Things” devices was laser focused on a global DNS provider, making much of the internet unusable for many. Here’s what Dyn, the targeted DNS provider, said of the attack then: “At this point we know this was a sophisticated, highly distributed attack involving 10s of millions of IP addresses. We are conducting a thorough root cause and forensic analysis, and will report what we know in a responsible fashion. The nature and source of the attack is under investigation, but it was a sophisticated attack across multiple attack vectors and internet locations. We can confirm, with the help of analysis from Flashpoint and Akamai, that one source of the traffic for the attacks were devices infected by the Mirai botnet. We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack.” 10 million devices, flooding networks with garbage traffic. Why? According The Wall Street Journal, it’s because one angry gamer was pissed about Sony’s PlayStation Network. Says Dale Drew, CSO of Level 3 Communications: “We believe that in the case of Dyn, the relatively unsophisticated attacker sought to take offline a gaming site with which it had a personal grudge and rented time on the IoT botnet to accomplish this.” While Drew hasn’t said which gaming site, The Wall Street Journal has, saying that the entire outage was brought about because somebody was mad at Sony. According to Forbes, all it took was buying the attack on the deep, dark web for $7500. The attack lasted for less than a full day. Is that worth over R100 000? That’s money that could have been spent on – materialistically – moving to another platform. Source: http://www.lazygamer.net/gaming-news/last-months-botnet-ddos-happened-gamer-mad-psn/

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Anonymous DDoS Brazilian Government Websites Because Rio Olympics

ANONYMOUS IS CONDUCTING CYBER ATTACKS ON BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT DOMAINS AND PORTALS AGAINST RIO OLYMPICS CLAIMING THE EVENT IS AFFECTING NATIVES ON A LARGE SCALE! The online hacktivist Anonymous Brazil is targeting Brazilian government websites to register their protest against the ongoing Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In their recent attack yesterday when millions around the world were watching Rio Olympics opening ceremony the hacktivist were busy conducting cyber attacks on the government websites forcing several of them to go offline. The targeted websites include the official website of the federal government for the 2016 Games (brasil2016.gov.br), Portal of the State Government of Rio de Janeiro (rj.gov.br), Ministry of sports (esporte.gov.br), Brazil Olympic Committee COB (cob.org.br) and the official website of the Rio 2016 Olympics (rio2016.com). In the second phase of their attack, Anonymous leaked personal, financial and login details from domains like Brazilian Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (pentatlo.org.br), o fficial Site of the Brazilian Handball Confederation (brasilhandebol.com.br), Brazilian Confederation of Boxing (cbboxe.com.br) and Brazilian Triathlon Confederation (cbtri.org.br). The leaked CSV files also include hashed passwords of site’s registered users. That’s not all; Anonymous is also claiming to have leaked personal details of Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Sport, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and three businessmen who Anonymous claims are involved in corruption. Also, Anonymous is urging people to use Tor onion browser and conduct DDoS attacks on Brazilian sites. Although such cyber attacks and data leaks will not stop the Olympics but the hacktivists vow to continue with their operations to unmask the elite as stated in the video below: Hello Rio de Janeiro. We know that many have realized how harmful it was (and still is) the Olympic Games in the city. The media sells the illusion that the whole city celebrates and commemorate the reception of tourists from all over the world, many of them attracted by the prostitution network and drugs at a bargain price. This false happiness hides the blood shed in the suburbs of the city, mainly in the favelas thanks to countless police raids and military under the pretext of a fake war. Poverty is spreading throughout the city, forcing entire families to leave their homes and traditional neighborhoods on account of high prices of rent and / or removals made by a corrupt city hall and serves only the wishes of the civil construction. We already manifested in other communications our repudiation to the realization of megaevents in the middle of the glaring social inequalities in this country. Still, even after so many words, so many manifestos or protests on the streets (all always fully supervised by repression, if not repressed with brutal violence) looks like the goverment will continue ignoring the voices of their own people. Therefore, we will continue with our operations to unmask the numerous arbitrary actions of those who are state and therefore its own population enemies. This is not the first time when Anonymous Brazil has protested against a mass sports event in the country, back in 2014 Anonymous conducted protests on the streets against Fifa world cup forcing the government to ban on the Guy Fawkes mask in Rio but in return hackers defaced FIFA Brazil World Cup website with a viral protest footage. At the time of publishing this article; all targeted sites were restored however if you are interested in keeping an eye on Anonymous Brazil’s cyber attacks check out their Facebook page. Source: https://www.hackread.com/anonymous-ddos-brazilian-government-websites/

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68 gov’t websites attacked

Several Philippine government websites have been subjected to various forms of cyberattacks following the release of the ruling on the arbitration case filed by the Philippines against China. The STAR learned yesterday that at least 68 websites have been subjected to attacks, which included attempts of hacking and defacement, slowdowns and distributed denial of service attacks. Among those at the receiving end were agencies such as the Department of National Defense, the Philippine Coast Guard, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Health, the Presidential Management Staff and the gov.ph domain registry website. The website of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was also subjected to a supposed hacking, although authorities were able to immediately foil it. The websites of these agencies were all accessible yesterday. The source of the attacks has yet to be determined, although initial investigation supposedly pointed to an entity supposedly operating from the Netherlands. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that issued the ruling on the Philippine case is based in The Hague in the Netherlands. The Information and Communications Technology Office, the precursor of the newly created Department of Information and Communications Technology, has yet to respond to request for comment regarding the cyberattacks. The Department of Science and Technology earlier provided additional protection to Philippine government websites amid repeated incidents of defacements and denial of service attacks. PCA website hacking Earlier, a cyber-security company reported that the PCA website was infected with a malware by “someone from China” in July 2015. Citing information from ThreatConnect Inc., Bloomberg Business reported the attack happened in the midst of the week-long hearing on the jurisdiction of the arbitration case filed by Manila against Beijing over the territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Gaelle Chevalier, a case manager at the PCA, told Bloomberg that they “have no information about the cause of the problems.” Source: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/07/16/1603250/68-govt-websites-attacked

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