2016
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UK-Based Llyod’s Bank Sees Decrease in Cyberattacks
Swimming against the torrent of relentless headlines highlighting the lack of cybersecurity among banks, government agencies, and popular websites, the Lloyds Banking Group has seen an 80-90% drop…
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Hacker imprisoned for stealing Bitcoin, selling botnet on Darkode
A Louisiana man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for using a computer to steal money, hacking computers to obtain passwords, and attempting to…
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Anonymous is 2016’s top trending hacktivist group
Anonymous emerges as the leader in 2016’s Trending Hacktivist Groups Anonymous continued to remain at the top in the top trending hacktivist group, says SurfWatch Labs based on…
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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars
Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for…
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Major DNS provider hit by mysterious, focused DDoS attack
Attack on NS1 sends 50 million to 60 million lookup packets per second. Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of…
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DDoS-for-Hire Services Go Up on Fiverr for 5 Bucks
In a new wrinkle in cybercriminal business modeling, distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services are being offered on the popular website Fiverr—where, as its name suggests, various professional…
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Devices Infected With New Ransomware Versions Will Execute DDoS Attacks
A combination of Ransomware and DDoS attacks is heralding a new wave of cyber attacks against consumers and enterprises around the world. Security experts are concerned this may…
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Cybercriminals add DDoS component to ransomware payloads
Instead of just encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is…