Collaborate Disseminate
An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as “Daniel K.,” pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers.
According to reports in the German press, the British ma… Continue reading British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom
A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court that he was behind an attack last year that knocked over a million Deutsche Telekom customers offline. Continue reading Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom
Cybercrime has continued to evolve and today exists in a highly organised form.
Cybercrime has increasingly been commercialised, and itself become big business by renting out an expanded range of hacking tools and technologies, from exploit kits to ra… Continue reading Two New Platforms Found Offering Cybercrime-as-a-Service to ‘Wannabe Hackers’
A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world’s leading businesses.
Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old teenager from Stockp… Continue reading UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service
Since the Shadow Brokers released the zero-day software vulnerabilities and hacking tools – allegedly belonged to the NSA’s elite hacking team Equation Group – several hacking groups and individual hackers have started using them in their own way.
The April’s data dump was believed to be the most damaging release by the Shadow Brokers till the date, as it publicly leaked lots of Windows
Continue reading More Hacking Groups Found Exploiting SMB Flaw Weeks Before WannaCry
Neustar’s annual DDoS attack report says businesses can lose $2.5M on average detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks. Continue reading DDoS Attacks Can Cost Businesses Up to $2.5M Per Attack, Report Says
The Internet-connected devices are growing at an exponential rate, and so are threats to them.
Due to the insecure implementation, a majority of Internet-connected embedded devices, including Smart TVs, Refrigerators, Microwaves, Security Cameras, and printers, are routinely being hacked and used as weapons in cyber attacks.
We have seen IoT botnets like Mirai – possibly the biggest
Continue reading Over 85% Of Smart TVs Can Be Hacked Remotely Using Broadcasting Signals
MIRAI – possibly the biggest IoT-based malware threat that emerged last year, which caused vast internet outage in October last year by launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the popular DNS provider Dyn.
Now, the infamous malware has updated itself to boost its distribution efforts.
Researchers from Russian cyber-security firm Dr.Web have now uncovered a
Continue reading New Windows Trojan Spreads MIRAI Malware To Hack More IoT Devices
It seems that 2016 has been the year of immense DDoS attacks, many coming from Mirai. This seems to be a newcomer though ending the year with a 650Gbps DDoS attack. The Dyn DNS DDoS attack that some speculated reached over 1Tbps was probably the biggest, but this isn’t that far behind and it’s bigger […]
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Bad news for gamers!
It’s once again the time when most of you will get new PlayStations and XBoxes that continue to be among the most popular gifts for Christmas, but possibilities are you’ll not be able to log into the online gaming console, just l… Continue reading Hackers threaten to take down Xbox Live and PSN on Christmas Day