2013
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WordPress Site Hacks Continue
WordPress installations sporting known vulnerabilities continue to be compromised by hackers and turned into distributed denial of service (DDoS) launch pads. That warning was sounded last week after…
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The latest on major DDoS and phishing attacks, and more
An analyst has confirmed that several, unnamed financial institutions have suffered losses in the “millions” owing to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to Avivah Litan , VP and…
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Researchers sinkhole half a million ZeroAccess bots
In a race against time and ZeroAccess developers and botmasters, Symantec researchers managed to sinkhole a large chunk of the infamous P2P-based botnet before its herders managed to…
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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths
Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…
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Symantec disables ZeroAccess bots
Almost 500,000 zombie machines have been taken out of the ZeroAccess botnet, one of the world’s largest networks of infected computers.
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Two youngsters arrested for different DDoS attacks
Following the massive DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus earlier this year, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch hosting…
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London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY
Bet his parents wish he’d been playing computer games A British police investigation into the massive DDoS attack against internet watchdog Spamhaus has led to the arrest of…
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Schoolboy arrested over Spamhaus DDoS, world’s biggest cyber attack
In March 2013, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented ferocity was launched against the servers of Spamhaus, an international non-profit dedicated to battling spam. A…
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Tor-using Mevade botnet is stealthy new version of old threat
The Mevade Trojan and botnet have gained unexpected notoriety when it turned out that the majority of the recent, sudden and massive uptick in Tor users was the…
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Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks and Midsize Firms
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs every two minutes, and the number of victims that suffered from more than one attack has risen substantially, according to a new…