2018
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FBI agents take aim at VPNFilter botnet, point finger at Russia, yell ‘national security threat’
Feds warn admins malware is rather tough to destroy The FBI says it is taking steps to stop the spread of the VPNFilter malware and botnet, warning that…
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Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare
DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are…
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UPnP joins the ‘just turn it off on consumer devices, already’ club
Before it amplifies DDoS attacks Universal Plug ‘n’ Play, that eternal feast of the black-hat, has been identified as helping to amplify denial-of-service attacks.…
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Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets
The blockchain sector is now bursting with innovation, with developers looking for new, pragmatic ways to use this secure distributed ledger technology across a range of applications. And…
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Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks
Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some…