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A Botnet called “Bondnet” Compromised Thousands of Windows servers and Perform DDOS used to Mines for Cryptocurrencies

A Botnet called “Bondnet” compromised more than 15,000 machine including Thousands of  Windows servers and control all its Activities Remotely and recent Discover stats that “Bondnet” Suspect for mine different cryptocurrencies. Bondnet Botnet performance seems highly sophisticated  and  everyday more than 2000 Compromised Machines which equals to 12,000 cores reports to Bondnet Command & Control Server […]

Does Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

A lot of DDoS movement on the Internet begins from supposed ‘booter/stresser’ administrations, which are DDoS-for-contract administrations which let even unsophisticated clients to dispatch high-affect assaults. What’s more, as we will see, the perpetual rivalry for benefits in the outrightly illicit DDoS-for-contract industry can lead those included down some extremely abnormal ways, to be sure. […]

Top 10 Cities | Countries in the World for Total Bot Population

Bot Population ;  As per the data published by Symantec  the most bot-infected cities and countries across the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. The top 10 ranking was compiled using telemetry data gathered during 2015 from Symantec security products and includes details about bot-infected PCs, Macs, smartphones, tablets and connected smart devices. […]

You, Too, Can Rent the Mirai Botnet

Two hackers are renting access to a massive Mirai botnet, which they claim has more than 400,000 infected bots, ready to carry out DDoS attacks at anyone’s behest. For our readers unfamiliar with Mirai, this is a malware family that targets embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and has been used in the […]

You can Take Mirai Botnet of 400,000 Bots for Rental

DDoS distributed denial-of-service attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic. Mirai Botnet For our reader who are unfamiliar with Mirai: Mirai […]

Black Nurse attack: Will a single laptop bring down Servers/Routers

Black Nurse attack is a new-threat emerging on it’s horizon, it can be launched from a single laptop which is capable of bringing server/firewalls to their knees. ICMP is an very commonly used protocol to identify live hosts, It is used by network devices like switches, Routers for sending error messages and operational information’s, for instance […]

Distributed Denial Of Service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months as per the Akamai’s second quarter 2016 state of the internet / security report

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report. The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and web application attacks, as well as malicious traffic […]

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who […]