2017
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Anonymous Attacks Spanish Government Sites
Hacktivist group Anonymous has been firing up its DDoS cannon again, this time aiming it at Spanish government websites, in support of Catalan independence. The group claimed to…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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CERT issues cyber attack warning for India
Malware Reaper is acquiring internet-connected devices for coordinated attack, say State Cyber Police Mumbai: The Maharashtra Cyber Department is in the process of issuing a State-wide advisory outlining…
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Infosec expert viewpoint: DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks have become more extensive and are testing the limits of existing DDoS mitigation tools and practices, as well as affecting online businesses globally. Organizations are experiencing…
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DDoS Attack Pulls Down Bitcoin Gold Website
Ever since the initiation of the hard-fork resulting into a new cryptocurrency – Bitcoin Gold (BTG) – from the bitcoin blockchain, the BTG website has been constantly under…
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Czech Parliamentary Election Websites Hit by Cyberattacks
The Czech statistical office has reported DDoS (Distrubuted Denial of Service) attacks on websites related to the recent parliamentary elections during the vote count. A number of websites of the…
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New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware…