Internet Slows In Iran Following Attacks on Infrastructure, Communication

Hackers interrupted Internet access in various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday after attacking a number of the country’s infrastructure and communications companies, a state official told the Reuters news agency. “Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country’s infrastructur...

Swedish Sites Attacked in Retaliation for Police Raid on Web Host

Several Web sites in Sweden, including the nation’s central bank and two government affiliates, were hit with attacks this week, supposedly in retaliation for a police raid on an Internet company tied to The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest file sharing site. That site also was offline until...

Internet freedom : Anonymous Brings Philippines Government Sites Offline

Hacker groups that are against the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Law for its effect on the country's freedom of expression defaced 11 more government websites since 11 p.m. Monday A message which said, "Hacked by M4N1L4 PR1D3, PHILIPPINE CYBER ARMY AND -=TheFamilyPride=-," appeared on the...

Automated Toolkits Named in Massive DDoS Attacks Against U.S. Banks

Attackers targeting major U.S. banks with distributed denial of service attacks are using a number of toolkits to automate the job. Prolexic Technologies, a security company specializing in DDoS protection services, identified one toolkit called itsoknoproblembro, a kit that attacks multiple port...

Cyber Attacks on Six Major American Banks

According to reports, some of the United States biggest financial institutions including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Bancorp were hit by a series of cyber attacks last week, by a group claiming Middle Eastern ties, that caused Internet blackouts and delays in onli...

'Historic' DDoS Attacks Against Major U.S. Banks Continue

PNC Bank appears, as promised, to be the latest victim of hacktivists carrying out denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. financial services institutions. PNC, out of Pittsburgh, joins Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America on a list of banks taken offline reportedly by a...

Counter Strike Servers Remote Reset Points & DDoS

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Microsoft Carries out Nitol Botnet Takedown

A botnet known as Nitol, built on the backs of PCs and laptops loaded with malware somewhere in the supply chain, was taken down by Microsoft. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was given permission this week by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to take over the 3322.org...

Anonymous Hacker take down GoDaddy with IRC Bots

GoDaddy.com, which hosts millions of websites mostly for small businesses, said Monday it was investigating an outage that had knocked some of its customers offline. A hacker using the "Anonymous Own3r" Twitter account claimed credit for the outage, "Hello https://godaddy.com/ now yes! all server...

Millions of Go Daddy Sites, E-mail Accounts Knocked Offline in Alleged Anonymous DDoS Attack

Websites that use the Internet domain registrar and web hosting company Go Daddy were knocked offline earlier this afternoon in what appears to have been a distributed denial of service DDoS attack executed by a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Go Daddy tweeted about the outage shortly...

Создатель ботнета из 70 тысяч компьютеров сел на 2.5 года

Дата добавления: 07.09.12 Взято с: lеntа.ru Окружной судья округа Колумбия Ройс Ламберт Royce C. Lamberth приговорил 6 сентября 30- летнего жителя штата Аризона Джошуа Шихтеля Joshua Schichtel к двум с половиной годам тюремного заключения за использование сети зараженных компьютеров ботнета. Об...

Aramco Threatened With New Attack

Attackers are threatening to launch a second assault on Saudi Aramco on Saturday in order to prove its abilities and the fact that it’s not relying on help from an Aramco insider. The first attack on the oil company occurred last week and resulted in the company taking its Web sites offline, sayi...

Security Firm Reveals Flaw in Dirt Jumper Bot

A team of researchers has discovered a weakness in the command-and-control infrastructure of one of the major DDoS toolkits, Dirt Jumper, that enables them to stop attacks that are in progress. The command and control C&C servers of the Dirt Jumper DDoS toolkit can be compromised and, in principl...

Researchers Find Flaw in Dirt Jumper Bot

A team of researchers has discovered a weakness in the command-and-control infrastructure of one of the major DDoS toolkits, Dirt Jumper, that enables them to stop attacks that are in progress. The discovery gives the researchers the ability to access the back-end servers that control the attack...

WikiLeaks Back Online after Sustained DDoS Attack

The controversial document-sharing site WikiLeaks was back online Monday evening after sustaining a week-long distributed denial-of-service attack. The organization apparently received some extra capacity and assistance from Web performance and security firm Cloudfare to counter the 10 gigabits p...

XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS

Hello! I'll give you additional information concerning advisories CakePHP 2.x-2.2.0-RC2 XXE Injection http://securityvulns.ru/docs28331.html and Squiz CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities http://securityvulns.ru/docs28220.html. It's about XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS. Similarly to earlier...

CakePHP / Squiz CMS XXE Injection

Hello! I'll give you additional information concerning advisories CakePHP 2.x-2.2.0-RC2 XXE Injection http://securityvulns.ru/docs28331.html and Squiz CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities http://securityvulns.ru/docs28220.html. It's about XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS. Similarly to earlier...

Firm Sees More DDoS Attacks Aimed at Telecom Systems

Attackers are now using DDoS services that offer attacks on telecommunication systems as part of larger attack schemes. These attacks, known as TDoS attacks, can be a relatively cheap option for cybercriminals looking into diversifying their attack vectors. Researchers have seen a series of...

Russian Hacker Arrested For DDoS Attacks on Amazon

Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, a Russian man accused of launching distributed-denial-of-service DDOS attacks on Amazon.com, has been arrested this week by authorities in Cyprus based on an international warrant, the Department of Justice revealed. Zubakha, a native of Moscow, was indicted for two deni...

Zemra Botnet Leaked, Cyber Criminals performing DDoS Attacks

Zemra Botnet Leaked, Cyber Criminals performing DDoS Attacks The Zemra DDoS Bot is currently sold in various forums for about 100 € and detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. Zemra first appeared on underground forums in May 2012. This crimeware pack is similar to other crime packs, such as Zeus...