2013
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25% of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based
Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands to…
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California financial institution website hit with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack costing $900,000
A Christmas Eve cyberattack against the Web site of a regional California financial institution helped to distract bank officials from an online account takeover against one of its…
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Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool
Botnets are flourishing with new packaging, new methods and new business models. ZeroAccess, the world’s fastest-growing botnet, infected millions of computers in 2012, using them to commit large-scal…
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Evolving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks provide the driver for financial institutions to enhance response capabilities
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks1 are not a new method employed by cyber criminals to inflict damage on victim entities’ networks. In fact, DDoS attacks were one of the…
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The multiple faces of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
According to Stratecast, DDoS attacks are increasing in number by 20 per cent to 45 pc annually Google, Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard… many of the world’s largest…
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Week in review: Critical Flash update, Bamital botnet takedown, and children turning into malware developers
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews, articles and interviews: Federated single sign-on to dominate by 2016 A well-executed single sign-on (SSO) strategy…
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Massive Bamital click-fraud botnet shut down
Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to…
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‘$1m-a-year’ botnet gets shut down
A botnet that took control of up to one million computers is shut down in a major security operation.
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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the…
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Business is booming for exploits, mobile malware
Business is thriving for exploits, mobile malware is still dominated by Android and Symbian, and botnets are back and retooled, according to a new threat report from F-Secure…