20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…
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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey
36-year-old Pyotr Levashov was charged on Friday in the US with one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer, one count of conspiracy, one count of accessing protected computers in furtherance of fraud, one count of wire fraud, one count of threatening to damage a protected computer, two counts of fraud in connection with email and one count of aggravated identity theft. Levashov stands accused of controlling and operating the Kelihos botnet to, … More ?
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Alleged Kelihos botmaster indicted
Engineers working on firmware updates Multiple models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers have vulnerabilities that might be exploited to create a botnet, security researchers at IOActive warn.…
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Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet
Mirai is the name of the worm that has taken control of many IoT devices around the world and used them to mount DDoS attacks, the most high-profile of which was directed against US-based DNS provider Dyn and resulted in many websites and online services being inaccessible for hours on end. Its source code was leaked by the author, which lead to the creation of more botnets, and an increased fear that we’ll soon witness … More ?
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Hajime IoT worm infects devices to head off Mirai
Varmints cooked up variant after malware code went public Hackers have created a potent new variant of the Mirai IoT malware.…
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Strange Mirai botnet brew blamed for powerful application layer attack
? Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ? Aficionados of salacious smut sites in the UK and Canada are picking up some nasty software that infects systems by using corrupted pop-under adverts.…
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Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind
A generic wireless camera manufactured by a Chinese company and sold around the world under different names and brands can be easily hijacked and/or roped into a botnet. The flaw that allows this to happen is found in a custom version of GoAhead, a lightweight embedded web server that has been fitted into the devices. This and other vulnerabilities have been found by security researcher Pierre Kim, who tested one of the branded cameras – … More ?
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185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked
Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay? Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…
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Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels
DDoS atacks are costly to your reputation and your bottom line. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Avi Freedman, CEO at Kentik, discusses how to recognize attacks quickly and accurately, then shut them down with situation-appropriate mitigation. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. I’m Avi Freedman, CEO of a startup called Kentik Technologies, I’m here today, on this podcast, to talk about the power of Big Data for security, operations, … More ?
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The power of Big Data for security, operations and DDoS protection
Kaspersky Lab experts are analyzing the first Windows-based spreader for the Mirai malware as part of a concerted effort to close down Mirai botnets in the wild. The Windows bot appears to have been created by a developer with more advanced skills than the attackers who unleashed the massive Mirai-powered DDoS attacks in late 2016, a fact that has worrying implications for the future use and targets of Mirai-based attacks. The malware author is likely … More ?