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Wikileaks Gets DDoSed after Leaking 8,200 DNC Emails One Day before U.S. Election

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With just two days before the presidential election, WikiLeaks late Sunday night published a new trove of emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The most recent dump of more than 8,000 emails came after the whistleblowing site, on a daily basis over last four weeks, has already leaked over 50,000 emails stolen from the key figure in the DNC – Hillary Clinton’s

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More Insights On Alleged DDoS Attack Against Liberia Using Mirai Botnet

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On Thursday, we compiled a story based on research published by a British security expert reporting that some cyber criminals are apparently using Mirai Botnet to conduct DDoS attacks against the telecommunication companies in Liberia, a small African … Continue reading More Insights On Alleged DDoS Attack Against Liberia Using Mirai Botnet→

Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country

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Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet.

Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of insecure IoT devices infected by the Mirai malware.

It all started early October when

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19-Year-Old Teenage Hacker Behind DDoS-for-Hire Service Pleads Guilty

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Due to the worldwide promotion of Mirai botnet that knocked down half of the Internet last Friday, hackers and even script kiddies have started creating their own botnet networks by hacking millions of IoT devices and selling them as DDoS-for-hire serv… Continue reading 19-Year-Old Teenage Hacker Behind DDoS-for-Hire Service Pleads Guilty→

New IoT Botnet Malware Discovered; Infecting More Devices Worldwide

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The whole world is still dealing with the Mirai IoT Botnet that caused vast internet outage last Friday by launching massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the DNS provider Dyn, and researchers have found another nasty IoT botnet…. Continue reading New IoT Botnet Malware Discovered; Infecting More Devices Worldwide→

Teenage Hacker Arrested For Disrupting 911 Service With DDoS Attack

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Just last month, researchers explained how an attacker can knock the 911 service offline in an entire state by launching automated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of just 6000 smartphones.

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Mirai Botnet Itself is Flawed; Hacking Back IoTs Could Mitigate DDoS Attacks

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The infamous botnet that was used in the recent massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the popular DNS provider Dyn, causing vast internet outage last Friday, itself is flawed.

Yes, Mirai malware, which has already enslaved millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across 164 countries, contains several vulnerabilities that might be used against it in order to destroy

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