Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification by the Norwegi…
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Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…
Suspiciously close to Soca’s shutdown of stolen-data shops The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…
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Botnet army flicks ‘off’ switch at UK crime agency website
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botn…
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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices
With great power comes great responsibility … to not pwn the interweb B-Sides HTML5 will allow web designers to pull off tricks that were previously only possible with Adobe Flash or convoluted JavaScript. But the technology, already widely supported by web browsers, creates plenty of opportunities for causing mischief.…
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Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets
Perfect platform for password forcing, DDoS attacks Cloud computing providers came under fire today from security experts who blamed them for giving cyber-criminals the tools to launch attacks more easily, efficiently and anonymously than ever before.…
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Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts
A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botnet has security researchers worrying that users might soon be targeted with an increasing amount of infection attempts. A Pastebin…
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SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price
In response to the recent discovery of the Flashfake botnet, Kaspersky Lab has announced the availability of its free Flashfake Removal Tool. Visit the safe verification site to determine if you’…
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Flashfake removal tool
When Microsoft, the financial services industry and Kyrus Tech teamed up to sinkhole a number of worldwide botnets using the Zeus family of malware, they managed to get the court's permission to seize…
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Microsoft takedown of Zeus botnets missed a few C&Cs
Valid attack could seize infected machines Updated A self-describer “law-abiding citizen” has posted attack plans against the Sality botnet on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, along with a tongue-in-cheek warning not to enact them since that would be illegal.…
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Sality botnet takedown plans posted online