Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the Feds. The crack unit raided a number of data centres where the botnet’s servers were located.…
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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Business is thriving for exploits, mobile malware is still dominated by Android and Symbian, and botnets are back and retooled, according to a new threat report from F-Secure Labs. “The world of m…
Less like the Hulk, more like Iron Man The days when attackers relied on sheer bandwidth volume alone to knock out websites are over, with miscreants increasingly using application-layer and multi-vector attacks.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted
But Iran not behind DDoS attacks, say security bods Islamist hackers busy blasting bank websites with network traffic have suspended their assault after a controversial anti-Muslim video ceased to be available through YouTube.…
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Muslim vid protest hackers turn web-flood hosepipe away from US banks
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Looking back at a year of Microsoft patches Last year Microsoft's Patch Tuesdays featured a total of …
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Week in review: Remote Linksys 0-day root exploit discovered, the Pobelka botnet, and a year of Microsoft patches
Analysts from Dutch-based security audit firm Fox-IT have recently released examined in great detail a botnet that has been around for quite some time, and is still functioning and bringing money to i…
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Fox-IT analysts demystify the Pobelka botnet
Despite having been swooped down on by security companies and law enforcement a couple of times, the botmasters of the Waledac (Kelihos) botnet refuse to give up and are using new variants to set up n…
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Waledac botmasters use Virut malware to build a new botnet
As Chinese mobile subscriber numbers boom, security researchers warn of a million-strong botnet operating thanks to Trojan infections within apps.
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China mobile users in botnet warning
It's already common knowledge that major commercial bank in the U.S. are under a new series of DDoS attacks. As with the first one, the responsibility for this one that started in December was cl…
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DDoS attackers on U.S. banks get help from hired botnets
As we close out 2012, there is no doubt that this year will go down as epic in the history books of information security professionals. Looking back on the year it’s not hard to find a laundry list of…
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What DDoS attacks reveal about your security infrastructure