Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...

FBI Denies Service to 15 DDoS-for-Hire Sites, Charges Operators

The Justice Department has taken 15 internet domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services offline, and has filed charges against three defendants who allegedly ran them. DDoS for hire or DDoS-as-a-service operations make it simple for any layperson to carry out DDoS attacks, flooding targets wi...

counterfeit merchandise domains seized

In an attempt to curb the rampancy of fraud throughout the holiday shopping season, a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized 706 Internet domains allegedly involved in the sale of counterfeit merchandise. The United States Homeland Security Investigations’ HSI National...

Microsoft Adds Kelihos Botnet Operator To Civil Complaint

A Russian man was added to the list of defendants in a civil complaint filed by Microsoft at the operators of the Kelihos botnet. In an amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, the company said that Andrey Sabelnikov controlled Kelihos using 21 Internet domains bought from a...

NY Times: Stuxnet Traced to Five Iranian Internet Domains

The Stuxnet Worm attempted to infiltrate five industrial complexes in Iran over a span of ten months according to a report in the New York Times based on a Stuxnet Dossier published by Symantec. Stuxnet was designed to not only attack industrial control systems built by Siemens Corporation, which...