2013
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Obad Android Trojan distributed via mobile botnets
When first unearthed three months ago, the Obad Android Trojan has fascinated researchers with its sophistication. Difficult to analyze, using a bug in the Android OS to extend…
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Fraud and identity theft camouflaged by DDoS attacks
Prolexic shared attack signatures and details that are helpful to detect and stop DDoS attacks from the Drive DDoS toolkit, an attack tool often used as a source…
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Kelihos botnet: What victims can expect
Kelihos is a botnet which utilizes P2P communication to maintain its CnC Network. With all of the attention around Kelihos, it should be no surprise that 30/45 AV…
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China hit by ‘biggest’ cyber-attack
China says it has been hit by a large distributed denial of service attack targeting “.cn” websites.
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Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced…
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Chinese authorities says massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced…
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Largest DDoS attack ever disrupts China's Internet
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which maintains the registry for the .cn, China's country code top-level domain, has notified the public that two massive DDoS attacks…
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Major DDoS attacks .cn domain; disrupts Internet in China
China’s Internet was hit with a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack Sunday morning that briefly disrupted and slowed access to sites in the .cn domain. The…
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Popular Windows downloader has secret DDoS capability
Unbeknownst to its users and perhaps even to its developers, the popular Windows download manager Orbit Downloader has been outfitted with a DDoS component. The Orbit Downloader has…
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Cybercrooks use DDoS attacks to mask theft of banks’ millions
Distributed denial of service attacks have been used to divert security personnel attention while millions of dollars were stolen from banks, according to a security researcher. At least…