After last September's arrest of an alleged member of the gang that has been developing and spreading the Dridex banking malware, and last October's temporary disruption of the Dridex botnet at the ha…
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Someone hijacked the Dridex botnet to deliver Avira AV's installer
New Jersey-based virtual private server provider Linode can't seem to catch a break. After being repeatedly hit with DDoS attacks from December 24 to early January, the company announced on Tuesday th…
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Linode forces password reset for all users due to suspected breach
According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of those behind recent DDoS att…
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Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?
A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts. “I mostly wanted to create a PoC after Twitter decid…
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Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages
Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro…
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Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues
The latest security update (XSA-145 through 153) for the popular Xen virtualization software fixes nine issues. Eight of them can lead to Denial of Service, but the ninth is much more serious than…
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Xen Project plugs critical host hijacking flaw, patch ASAP
Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a D…
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New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers
Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and a Chinese IP address. …
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Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots
Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi…
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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks
At this point in time, the existence of a botnet comprising of tens of thousands of compromised routers and other IoT devices is not news. Nevertheless, this latest one mapped by researchers is a spec…
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Unexpectedly benevolent malware improves security of routers, IoT devices