2022
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Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits
Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to…
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Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware
Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves The criminals behind the Emotet botnet – which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery –…
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Week in review: Macro-less Office documents zero-day bug, FluBot takedown, growing DDoS threats
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Zero-day bug exploited by attackers via macro-less Office documents (CVE-2022-30190) A newly numbered…
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DDoS attackers continue to innovate, devising new threats and altering attack strategies
Corero Network Security has published the latest edition of its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that compiles the trends, observations, predictions, and recommendations based on DDoS attacks against…
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DDoS threats growing in sophistication, size, and frequency
Corero Network Security has published the latest edition of its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that compiles the trends, observations, predictions, and recommendations based on DDoS attacks against…
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EnemyBot malware adds enterprise flaws to exploit arsenal
Fast-evolving botnet targets critical VMware, F5 BIG-IP bugs, we’re told The botnet malware EnemyBot has added exploits to its arsenal, allowing it to infect and spread from enterprise-grade…
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Let’s play everyone’s favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?
Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang Akamai has spoken of a distributed denial of service…
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Microsoft sounds the alarm on — wait for it — a Linux botnet
Redmond claims the numbers are scary, but won’t release them Microsoft has sounded the alarm on DDoS malware called XorDdos that targets Linux endpoints and servers.…
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Limelight Layer0 Security protects against malicious website attacks
Limelight released Layer0 Security Platform, significantly enhancing its capabilities in the $4.4B web CDN and security market it entered in November. A fully PCI-compliant solution, Layer0 Security protects…