2017
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Canada one of sources for destructive IoT botnet
Canada is among the countries that have been stung by a mysterious botnet infecting Internet-connected devices using the Linux and BusyBox operating systems that essentially trashes the hardware,…
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Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet
Trump hacking claims look like red herring Police in Barcelona have arrested a man suspected of being one of the web’s top spammers and the possible operator of…
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Russian arrested in Spain ‘over mass hacking’
Spanish police say he ran the Kelihos botnet, hacking information and installing malicious software.
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Russian arrested in Spain ‘over mass hacking’
Spanish police say he ran the Kelihos botnet, hacking information and installing malicious software.
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Identifying the three steps of DDoS mitigation
It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be DDoS attacked, it’s a matter of when – many APAC organisations fail to understand the threat and quantify…
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Identifying the three steps of DDoS mitigation
It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be DDoS attacked, it’s a matter of when – many APAC organisations fail to understand the threat and quantify…
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IoT devices under attack: Amnesia hijacks, BrickerBot destroys
Every hour of every day, computer systems and IoT devices are under attack by bots trying to recruit them into growing botnets. Security researchers have recently highlighted two…
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#OpIsrael: Anonymous hackers poised to execute ‘electronic holocaust’ cyberattacks against Israel
Hacktivists pledge to take government, military and business websites offline in annual attacks. Since 2013, hackers and internet activists affiliated with the notorious Anonymous collective have targeted digital…
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20,000-bots-strong Sathurbot botnet grows by compromising WordPress sites
A 20,000-bots-strong botnet is probing WordPress sites, trying to compromise them and spread a backdoor downloader Trojan called Sathurbot as far and as wide as possible. Sathurbot: A…
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‘Amnesia’ IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability
New variant of ‘Tsunami’ is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” that exploits a year-old but as…