2014
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New Gameover Zeus variant steadily rebuilds downed botnet
It's already widely known that the Gameover Zeus gang, whose activity has been temporarily foiled by a successful multi-national law enforcement takedown in June, is trying to regain…
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ZeroLocker ransomware "helps" you get your files back
In early June, the FBI has lead a rather successful multi-national effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet which was also responsible for delivering Cryptolocker. Unfortunately, that doesn't…
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Popcorn Time Hit By Massive DDoS Attack
A major fork of the popular Popcorn Time project is currently being subjected to a massive DDoS attack. The whole project has been hit, from the site hosting…
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Attacker could use default defibrillator password to launch DDoS attack
Jay Radcliffe freaked out the medical community in 2011 when he revealed how insulin pumps could be hacked to deliver a fatal dose of insulin (pdf). Yet at…
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DOSarrest Adds New DDoS Protection Node in Singapore
DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that they have expanded their DDoS protection cloud into Asia, with a new DDoS mitigation node in Singapore. The new node will work…
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Irish Domains hit with denial of service attack
Web-hosting company Irish Domains was the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday, incapacitating numerous websites of its client companies. The company said that…
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Israel-Hamas conflict sparks surge in DDoS attacks
As conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant Islamist organisation Hamas escalates, new research has revealed the impact politics has had on cyberattack trends. Tension between countries and…
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DDoS attack volumes plummet as NTP servers got patched
Wise to attackers’ exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability to create distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, information security executives thwarted these type…
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RIA Novosti Website Hit by DDoS Attack
RIA Novosti’s website has fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers, the agency’s IT specialists reported on Sunday. The mobile version of the website is…
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Amazon cloud infested with DDoS botnets
Security researchers have found yet another exploit on the Amazon cloud computing platform through the Elasticsearch distributed search engine tool. According to analysis, hackers are able to gain…