2013
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Microsoft Citadel takedown ultimately counterproductive
Last week's disruption of nearly 1500 Citadel botnets believed to be responsible for over half a billion US dollars in financial fraud and affecting more than five million…
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Are DDoS Attacks Against Banks Over?
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks have been dormant for nearly four weeks, leading security experts to question when and if a new phase of attacks might emerge. The…
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FBI and Microsoft hit theft botnet
A huge botnet that helped steal $500m has been broken up thanks to co-ordinated action by the FBI and Microsoft.
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Fake Mt. Gox pages aim to infect Bitcoin users
Mt. Gox is the the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, and as such it and its users are being repeatedly targeted by attackers. Some two months ago,…
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Microsoft and FBI storm ramparts of Citadel botnets
Next: The hunt for evil botnet overlord ‘Aquabox’ The ZeuS-derived Citadel botnet, which rose to public prominence last year, is being progressively disabled by Microsoft and the FBI…
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Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and…
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Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it
‘All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience’ Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of…
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Turkish gov’t websites hacked by Anonymous
A group of computer hackers known as Anonymous carried out early on Monday a series of cyberattacks on Turkish government websites in retaliation for violent police response to…
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Preparing for Battle: DDoS Attacks On Business
Lately, DDoS attacks have crept back into the headlines, forcing businesses to reacquaint themselves with the concept. DDoS stands for distributed denial-of-service which uses multiple machines to carry…
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Ruby on Fails: Zombie SERVER army built thanks to Rails bug
The undead are coming, and they have 1Gbps pipes! A critical vulnerability in trendy web programming kit Ruby on Rails is being abused to conscript hacked website servers…