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‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability

New variant of ‘Tsunami’ is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…

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‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability

Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind

? 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

Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels

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

Furby Rickroll demo: what fresh hell is this?

Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you’re NO GOOD at security Here’s your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes.…

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Furby Rickroll demo: what fresh hell is this?

Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again

Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…

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Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again

Mirai author named as operator of DDoS protection service

Krebs says he’s fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…

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‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg

Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…

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‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg

A year in infosec: Bears, botnets, breaches … and elections

History made How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst serving as outgoing US President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State became a key element in the US presidential election this year.…

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A year in infosec: Bears, botnets, breaches … and elections