2015
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Why a Dyre infection leads to more than just stolen banking credentials
The Dyre/Dyreza information-stealer has without a doubt filled the vacuum generated by the 2014 and 2015 law enforcement takedowns of botnet infrastructure of several prominent financial Trojan groups…
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DDoS Attacks Target Financial Firms and Broker Dealers
FINRA memo June 19, 2015 announces: An increasing number of member firms have been subjected to DDoS attacks originating from a cyber-criminal group called DD4BC. The latest in…
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DDoS Attacks Have Graduated to Extortion
There are things in this world that are far less enjoyable than having your website knocked offline to be certain. That being said, it can have a massive…
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Polish plane IT attack? Apparently not, just a simple DDoS
Turns out, it wasn’t that big of a deal after all The Register has discovered that the unspecified IT attack which left 1,400 passengers of LOT Polish Airlines…
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Polish Planes Grounded After Airline Hit With DDoS Attack
Roughly 1,400 passengers were temporarily stranded at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport over the weekend after hackers were purportedly able to modify an entire airline’s flight plans via a distributed…
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US is the world’s botnet mothership, says Level 3
Not the way you want to lead the globe Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with…
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AINA Brought Down By Massive DDoS Attack
AINA’s website was the target of a massive distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) which made the site unavailable for more than one week. The attack was launched…
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Canadian Government Websites Inaccessible Following DDoS attack
Around 1:30 pm ET on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian government websites became inaccessible due to a denial-of-service attack, The Globe and Mail reported. The attack affected industry, employment, national…
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DDoS Attack on Voat due to Reddit
Voat was just a small Reddit knock-off before last week — but now it’s becoming overloaded as people threaten to leave the bigger site So many people are…