CyberVor, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Anecdotal evidence is emerging that the Russian botnet raiders behind the “biggest-ever” password theft have begun attacks against web services using stolen login credentials.…
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The channel’s technical experts managed to partially restore the website’s operation, but it is still not working properly Russia’s Zvezda television channel website came under a DDoS attack on Friday. “The Zvezda channel’s website came under a massive DDoS attack. Its first round occurred at 14:00 Moscow time, making the website inaccessible to users,” the channel said in a statement. The channel’s technical experts managed to partially restore the website’s operation, but it is still not working properly. Source: http://en.itar-tass.com/non-political/747331
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THE Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-hacking attack on JPMorgan Chase and as many as four other banks, in what people familiar with the probe described as a significant breach of corporate computer security. The timing and extent of the hacking attacks wasn’t immediately clear, though cybersecurity experts began probing the possible JPMorgan breach earlier this month, according to people familiar with the investigation. Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/fbi-probe-into-hack-attacks-on-banks/story-fnay3ubk-1227040501221?nk=a9c75ab55e6d5171cc79455c78c5564d#
Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri have been forced to communicate via text message after Anonymous launched a DDOS attack against the city’s servers shutting them down, following the murder of Michael Brown. On top of that, private servers of the Ferguson police department were hacked to get personal information. Both peaceful and violent protests have taken place in response to the atrocity in Ferguson. Last Thursday, anonymous performed a DDoS attack on Ferguson servers. The attack was in reaction to the murder of 18 year old, Michael Brown, an African American teenager who was killed unjustly by white policemen. Law enforcement officials said recently that the FBI has taken an immense interest in the investigation of hacking attempts directed at the personal computers and online accounts of police officers who are part of the department responsible for the murder. CNN and other mainstream media outlets, in affiliation with three policeman, who’s names are undisclosed, have reported the police as victims of a ‘cyber attack’, suggesting that anonymous is to blame for the violent demonstrations that took place in Ferguson, avoiding the clear fact that the PD of Ferguson are responsible, and a reaction like this is to be expected in result to the killing of an innocent person. This is of no surprise that corporately funded news outlets would be hesitant to speak negatively of the police. In reality, despite the propaganda that the 1% will spew forth, it is organizations like Anonymous that are fighting for freedom, unrestricted by the fascist regulations of a fear-mongering governing body, we can fight for peace using whatever means possible. Source: http://anonopsofficial.blogspot.ca/2014/08/anonymous-hacked-ferguson-police.html
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Anonymous Hacked Ferguson Police Servers and Launched a DDOS Attack
Sony’s PlayStation and Entertainment networks are back online after they were forced offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the company said late Sunday. “People can now enjoy the services on their PlayStation devices,” Sony spokesman Sid Shuman wrote in a blog post “We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users personal information,” he said, also offering apologies for any inconvenience caused. Sony was hit by a large scale DDoS attack which struck upstream traffic routes over which Sony has no control, affecting players’ ability to log in, Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley wrote on Twitter on Sunday. DDoS attacks attempt to crash a network by sending large amounts of data to a service provider. A group calling itself the “Lizard Squad” claimed on Twitter to be behind the attack. It said that it had “planted the ISIS flag on @Sony’s servers,” referring to the militant group that occupies parts of Syria and Iraq. Earlier on Sunday, the group tweeted directly to American Airlines writing that it had “received reports” that a flight carrying Smedley “has explosives on board.” This appeared to be a way to aggravate Sony further. Smedley had tweeted earlier that his flight had been diverted for reasons that had to do with “something about security and our cargo.” The Boeing 757, with 179 passengers and six crew which left from Dallas-Fort Worth for San Diego was diverted to Phoenix due to a “a security-related issue” and landed safely, according to American Airlines. Source: http://www.cio-asia.com/resource/networking/playstation-network-back-online-after-ddos-attack/
The cyber crooks behind the Kelihos botnet are, once again, trying to swell the number of computers included in it. They are trying a novel approach: posing as a “community Russian programmers,” …
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Sony's PlayStation Network has been hit with and downed by a large DDoS attack this weekend, but is now back online a functioning as it should. “Like other major networks around the world, the Play…
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Sony PSN back online after DDoS attack
XBox and Battle.net networks also targeted by DDoSers As Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks hosed not only Playstation Network but also XBox and Battle.net networks, it has emerged that a fake bomb threat grounded US flight 362, while Sony Entertainment Online chief John Smedley was aboard the aircraft.…
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Did DDoS attack on Sony kick Beeb TV offline? Updated The BBC’s web servers fell over today, taking down its online news and iPlayer services – but it’s unclear whether the outage relates to the significant Distributed Denial of Service attack hitting Sony’s gaming network right now.…
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BBC goes titsup: iPlayer to News websites down – Auntie working to fix it
Eve Online, the space-based videogame with over half a million active players, has been forced offline for more than 12 hours due to a series of cyber attacks against a cluster of its servers located in London. According to the Eve Online Status Twitter account, the first signs of trouble were seen at around 8pm on Thursday, 21 August, and by 11pm the Icelandic-based CCP Games which develops the game had confirmed the problem was due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are a common tool used by criminals to flood servers with traffic in order to knock them offline and unavailable to anyone trying to access them. Some had apparently linked the offline status of the game to the recent activity of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland which is on the verge of erupting, however CCP Games explicitly ruled this out. The problem is affecting the Tranquility server cluster, which all Eve Online players connect to in order to play the game. This cluster of servers is based in London. Even the Eve Online wiki is inaccessible as it too is seemingly hosted on the Tranquility server. An update from CCP Games on Twitter at 8am on Friday, 22 August, simply saying: “Tranquility is currently under heavy load again” and pointing player to a forum thread. However this thread also appears to be offline at the time of publication. DDoS attacks are often used by unscrupulous companies in order to knock rivals offline for a sustained period of time, with many cyber-criminals renting out DDoS services for as little as £5-an-hour. Eve Online is a massively multiplayer online game set in the fictional world of New Eden where players pilot customisable spaceships through a galaxy of over 7,500 star systems. The game is also unique in that its developers create the structure of New Eden but then handed over control of what happens in the game to the players. The rest is a virtual world where corporations and alliances hold huge power and where huge battles can cost the equivalent of over $300,000 in real world money. Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eve-online-servers-knocked-offline-due-ddos-attacks-1462180
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Eve Online Servers Knocked Offline Due to DDoS Attacks