The tale of LulzSec, two admits targeting websites

The tale of LulzSec two admits targeting websites Two British members of the notorious Lulz Security hacking collective have pleaded guilty to a slew of computer crimes, in the latest blow against online troublemakers whose exploits have grabbed headlines and embarrassed governments around the...

New Crimeware Bot Zemra behind DDoS Attacks

Zemra, a new crimeware bot that shares traits with the banking Trojans Zeus and SpyEye has been making the rounds lately, according to a recent post on Symantec’s Security Response blog. In the post, Symantec’s Alan Neville claims Zemra has been seen executing distributed denial of service attack...

Twitter Denies Hacktivists Behind Severe Outage

Twitter officials say it was a “cascading bug” and not the handiwork of hacktivists that brought down the microblogging site today in two separate outages. “This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today,” Mazen Rawashdeh, the company’s vice...

LulzSec Affiliate, Ryan Cleary, Indicted in U.S.

Ryan Cleary, the 20 year-old Essex, England hacker associated with the hacker collective LulzSec, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on Tuesday. According to an FBI press release, the grand jury indicted Cleary with one count of conspiracy and two counts of the unauthorized...

More Sophisticated DDoS Attack a New Threat to Apache Servers

A once flawed DDoS attack targeting the world’s most widely used Web servers has improved its cryptography and attack capabilities to become a more serious threat. MP-DDoser, also known as “IP-Killer,” uses a relatively new low-bandwidth, “asymmetrical” HTTP attack to inflict a denial-of-service...

Report: North Korea Accused Of DDoS Attack On South Korean Airport

North Korean agents have been linked to a malware attack on a South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, according to a report from the JoongAng Daily, a South Korean paper. The paper, citing the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, said that a 39 year-old South Korean man was arrested for...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

DHS Warns of Potential Scams and Attack in Run-up to London Olympics

Hacktivists, malware, scams, data theft and DDoS attacks are among the Department of Homeland Security’s concerns regarding this summer’s Olympic Games set to take place in London, according to the DHS Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center’s Strategic Outlook. The document focuses...

Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack

Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack WikiLeaks and Swedish BitTorrent file-sharing site Pirate Bay were reportedly battling Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks for several days earlier this week. The user, who goes by the Twitter handle @AnonNyre, has been...

Concrete CMS v5.5 <= Multiple Vulnerabilities

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HULK DDoS Tool Smash Web Server, Server Fall Down

For the aspiring attacker or pen tester, there is no shortage of attack tools, scripts, crimeware kits and exploits available online. But, the Internet being what it is, there’s always room for one more. Enter HULK, a new DDoS tool that arrives just in time to coincide with the release of some...

UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency's website taken offline after DDoS attack

UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency's website taken offline after DDoS attack The Serious Organised Crime Agency's website was temporarily shut down today after a cyber attack.It was the victim of a scam known as distributed denial of service DDOS whereby an internet address is flooded with bogus...

DDoS Attack Knocks SOCA Website Offline

The Website of the United Kingdom’s Serious Online Crime Agency SOCA remains offline this morning following a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. A spokesperson from SOCA told the BBC that they took their website offline at 22:30 GMT on Wednesday but insisted that the outage did not presen...

Russian Mafia Organizes to Double Cybercrime Profits in 2011

The dollar-value of online criminal activity conducted by the Russian mafia and other criminal organizations doubled in 2011, according to a new report from the Russian security firm Group-IB. The global cyber crime market was worth $12.5 billion in 2011, the report claims. Russian-speaking...

Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites

Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites Hackers launched a DoS denial of service attack on D.C. government websites today, clogging the system with a flurry of requests so that it operates extremely slow or is impossible to load. "The District government has detected an attempted...

MI6, CIA and Department of Justice Tango Down !

MI6, CIA and Department of Justice Tango Down ! Hacker group Anonymous claimed it took down the CIA website for the second time in two months following a new DDoS attack on the U.S. secret service which lasted 45 minutes. Anonymous is reportedly on a DDoS rampage today, downing the CIA, Departmen...

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffi...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K...

#OpTrialAtHome : Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government

Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government UK hackers linked to the Anonymous group are encouraging supporters to attack the Home Office website this Saturday 7 April in protest at the extradition of three UK citizens to the US. Called OpTrialAtHome, the hacktivist group @AnonOpUK poste...