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The Necurs botnet is evolving and recently the experts at BitSight’s Anubis Labs discovered that it was improved to launch DDoS attacks. The Necurs botnet continues to evolve and recently it was used by crooks not only to spread the dreaded Locky ransomware but he was improved to launch DDoS attacks. According to the researchers BitSight’s […]
A 29-year-old man has been arrested at Luton airport by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in connection with a massive internet attack that disrupted telephone, television and internet services in Germany last November. As regular readers of We Live Security will recall, over 900,000 Deutsche Telekom broadband customers were knocked offline last November as […]
DOS Computer worm SQL Slammer is hitting again. A computer worm is an independent malware computer program that recreates itself to spread to a different computer. Frequently, it uses a computer system to spread itself, depending on security incompetent on the objective computer to get to it. First Appearance SQL Slammer is a PC worm that […]
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities. The first attack hit Russian security firm Dr.Web, who revealed over the weekend that a DDoS attack hit its Russian and Ukrainian […]
Police in Shelton, Connecticut have arrested a teenager for launching DDoS attacks on his/her former high school’s network. According to a Shelton Police press release, the yet unnamed teenager was arrested on Thursday and was set to appear in court today. Police say the teenager, now a former student who attended the Shelton High School, […]
R.I.U. Star Patrol says it plans new DDoS attacks on Dec 25. Hacking group R.I.U. Star Patrol managed to take down Tumblr earlier this week and keep it offline for almost two hours, and now it’s planning on launching another large-scale DDoS attack that’s likely to impact many more users. R.I.U. Star Patrol announced in […]
Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai malware variant responsible for building one of today’s biggest botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authorities and security firms to shut it down. Last week, security researchers from Qihoo 360’s NetLab discovered a variant of the Mirai IoT malware that used […]
The popular security expert Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security, has explained how the Mirai botnet could hack a security camera in a few seconds. The recent string of attacks powered with the Mirai botnet has demonstrated to the security industry the potential effects of DDoS attacks on the global Internet backbone. Experts who investigated […]
Short Bytes: Over the last few months, we’ve seen some of the largest DDoS attacks to date and, by far, the most disruptive. You probably didn’t know that DoS and DDoS attacks are so effective because they are based on war strategies that have been fine-tuned over centuries. Read on to learn how, despite being worlds apart […]
The head of of the GCHQ believes that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks could be eliminated completely if internet service providers (ISPs) were to completely rewrite their software and its code. The technical director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ian Levy, is already preparing to engage in talks with ISPs, such as BT, […]
UPDATE: As of late Wednesday night, William Hill’s websites remain offline. Sounding more than a little defeated, the company’s official Twitter feed could offer only the following: “We’re calling it a day but we know it’s not been our best. Techies will be working through the night & Live Chat will answer your queries.” UK […]
Security researchers discovers IRCTelnet malware. A new malware family written by what appears to be an experienced coder is aiming for Linux-based IoT devices, with the main purpose of adding those devices to a botnet and carrying out DDoS attacks. Discovered by security researcher MalwareMustDie, this new malware family is named Linux/IRCTelnet and is written […]
HackForums.net has shut down its “Server Stress Testing” section. An online hackers’ forum has deleted a section that allegedly offered paid distributed denial-of-service attacks, following last Friday’s massive internet disruption. HackForums.net will be shutting down the “Server Stress Testing” section, the site’s admin Jesse “Omniscient” LaBrocca said in a Friday posting. “I do need to […]
Short Bytes: As a result of a massive cyberattack on Dyn DNS, many popular online services and websites went offline on Friday. The attack comprised of 3 back-to-back DDoS attacks that were, probably, launched by a botnet comprising of smart messages. Now, the services have been restored and the FBI is investigating all potential causes of […]
Sierra Wireless confirms that devices it manufactures were infected by Mirai. This week, the US government-backed ICS-CERT warned that the troubling new generation of computer attacks is powered by malware that can infect cellular modems used to connect automotive and industrial equipment to the Internet. An advisory published Wednesday listed five industrial control devices manufactured by […]
The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices. Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the […]
According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet? Is it possible? Our society heavily depends on technology and the Internet is the privileged vector of the information today. Blocking the Internet could paralyze […]
IoT malware and IoT botnets are becoming a real problem. Malware targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices is becoming more and more prevalent, with new families discovered every month, all working in the same way. IoT malware, usually targeting various Linux flavors used to power these devices, is rarely a danger to the people or […]
Malware is infesting a growing number of IoT devices, but their owners may be completely unaware of it. Malware targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age and the number of attack groups focusing on IoT has multiplied over the past year. 2015 was a record year for IoT attacks, with eight new […]
Research published last week by the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel reveals that it only takes about 6,000 smartphones infected with malware to launch a DDoS attack capable of shutting down 911 emergency services in a US state. To cripple 911 services across the entire US, attackers would […]
The telecommunications industry keeps the world connected. Telecoms providers build, operate and manage the complex network infrastructures used for voice and data transmission – and they communicate and store vast amounts of sensitive data. This makes them a top target for cyber-attack. According to PwC’s Global State of Information Security, 2016, IT security incidents in […]