Lawmen respond to Anonymous attack on right-wing moneymen A 37-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged over his alleged involvement in denial-of-service attacks against Koch Industries.…
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Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack
Bombardment without collateral damage – amazing Analysis The massive 300Gbit-a-second DDoS attack against anti-spam non-profit Spamhaus this week didn’t actually break the internet’s backbone, contrary to many early reports.…
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BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries
Potentially risks thousands of years in jail An anonymous researcher has taken an unorthodox approach to achieve the dream of mapping out the entire remaining IPv4 internet – and in doing so broken enough laws around the world to potentially put him or her behind bars for thousands of years.…
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Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map
Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the Feds. The crack unit raided a number of data centres where the botnet’s servers were located.…
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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Less like the Hulk, more like Iron Man The days when attackers relied on sheer bandwidth volume alone to knock out websites are over, with miscreants increasingly using application-layer and multi-vector attacks.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted
But Iran not behind DDoS attacks, say security bods Islamist hackers busy blasting bank websites with network traffic have suspended their assault after a controversial anti-Muslim video ceased to be available through YouTube.…
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Muslim vid protest hackers turn web-flood hosepipe away from US banks
Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an $850m botnet spree.…
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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook
Hacktivists blamed for online banking blackout Updated HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night.…
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HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits
Botnet herders upgrade malware, still making bank – Sophos The stealthy ZeroAccess botnet commands a zombie army of more than one million machines, according to new research.…
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Crooks can milk ‘$100k a day’ from 1-million-zombie ZeroAccess army
21-year-old could face five years in a Hong Kong slammer Hong Kong police have arrested a 21-year-old man after he apparently bragged on Facebook of his intent to disrupt several government web sites.…
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Alleged Anon arrested for planning gov DDoS attacks