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
DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly larger, more complex, and perpetrated by cyber extortionist instead of hacktivists and vandals, the results of Arbor Networks' 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructu…
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Larger, more complex, financially motivated DDoS attacks on the rise
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?
Akamai Technologies announced its Q3 2015 report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape. “Akamai has been seeing greater numbers of denial of service a…
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DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago
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
After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours on end in the last week.
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ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks
A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a…
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Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet
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
China bore the brunt of DDoS reflection attacks last month, with 61 percent of the top attack destinations observed hitting Chinese-based systems, according to Nexusguard. Of the 21,845 attack events …
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China is the top target for DDoS reflection attacks
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