2014
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Hackers using Shellshock to spread Kaiten Mac OS DDoS malware
Hackers are exploiting the Shellshock bug to infect numerous systems, including Apple Mac OS X, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware known as Kaiten. Security researchers from Trend…
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Apple updates XProtect to kill iWorm botnet threat
Apple has released an update for its XProtect anti-malware system which makes it detect three different version of the iWorm OS backdoor malware discovered last week by AV…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Will we ever can the spam monster?
An unending battle against email-borne nasties and botnets Spam may be the best known security threat in the world. Anyone with email or a Facebook account has experienced…
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Secondhand DDoS: Why hosting providers need to take action
Unfortunately, the sheer size and scale of hosting or datacenter operator network infrastructures and their massive customer base presents an incredibly attractive attack surface due to the multiple…
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MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers…
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The History of DDoS Attacks as a Tool of Protest
Although the web is only a quarter of a century old, it already has a rich history as a platform for worldwide protest. One common tool used by…
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Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise
In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
First denial, then anger, then DDoS , then patching. A tool that’s popular with Microsoft’s in-house developers, the RadEditor HTML editor, contains a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability,…