Cops analysing command and control server … in Hampshire Euro cybercrime cops have taken down the RAMNIT botnet, which has infected 3.2 million computers worldwide, including 33,000 in the UK.…
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Europol shuts down darn RAMNIT botnet
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New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy
Attackers are using Joomla servers with a vulnerable Google Maps plugin installed as a platform for launching DDoS attacks. A known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin for Joomla allows the plugi…
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New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy
Read() or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’
Evgeniy Bogachev accused of GameOver ZeuS botnet crimes The US State Department and the FBI, have stumped up $3m in reward money for the arrest of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the 30-year-old Russian man accused of stealing over $100m with his malware.…
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Read() or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’
Anonymous loose cannon admits DDoSing social services and housing websites
51-yr-old Liverpudlian cuffed after bragging on social media A middle-aged Briton has admitted running a series of debilitating denial of service attacks against social services, social housing and crime prevention websites.…
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Anonymous loose cannon admits DDoSing social services and housing websites
ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
We take bots down, but they get up again – you’re never going to keep them down
Dell analysis shows ZeroAccess botnet still slinging out A combined attack on one of the world’s biggest networks of infected PCs has been partially successful: analysis from Dell SecureWorks shows you can’t keep a bad botnet down.…
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We take bots down, but they get up again – you’re never going to keep them down
NSA: We’re in YOUR BOTNET
Victims? More like SCAPEGOATS The NSA quietly commandeered a botnet targeting US Defence agencies to attack other victims including Chinese and Vietnamese dissidents, Snowden documents reveal.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
You just exposed your users to world+dog, buddy A DDoS-for-hire service purportedly set up by the Lizard Squad hacking crew exposes registered users’ login credentials.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
When they were up, they were up, and when they were down… Finnish bank OP is continuing to fight off a cascading series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that began on New Year’s Eve.…
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Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
Sony FINGERS DDoS attackers for ruining PlayStation’s Xmas
Malefactors turned festivities into a turkey for online gamers Sony has blamed distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attackers for causing PlayStation’s network to go titsup on Christmas Day.…
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Sony FINGERS DDoS attackers for ruining PlayStation’s Xmas