Collaborate Disseminate
The British professional hacker behind the 2016 Mirai attack on Lonestar, Liberia’s largest telecom company, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, announced the UK National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye, also known as “BestBuy&… Continue reading British Hacker-for-Hire Goes to Prison for Liberian Telecom, Deutsche Telekom Mirai Attack
SIE Europe emerged from stealth mode to launch an initiative to enable European organisations to contribute and share Internet data. This consortium advances the detection and mitigation of phishing, malware and other targeted cyberattacks against thei… Continue reading SIE Europe: Data sharing initiative to combat cybercrime launches
It seems that Spiderman is in a spot of trouble, tangled in a web of his own making.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Spiderman pleads guilty to knocking 900,000 German broadband routers offline
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
Version 10g of Oracle Access Manager suffers from vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to hijack sessions. Continue reading Vulnerabilities Expose Oracle OAM 10g to Remote Session Hijacking
In February 2017, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested a 29-year-old U.K. man on suspicion of knocking more than 900,000 Germans offline in an attack tied to Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves Internet of Things (IoT) devices like security cameras and Internet routers for use in large-scale cyberattacks. Investigators haven’t yet released the man’s name, but news reports suggest he may be better known by the hacker handle “Bestbuy.” This post will follow a trail of clues back to one likely real-life identity of Bestbuy. Continue reading Who is the GovRAT Author and Mirai Botmaster ‘Bestbuy’?
Internet of things news in the wake of CES is a bold move, but Roambee isn’t letting the over-saturation of connected everything (hairbrushes!) get in the way of its mission to take the pain out of asset monitoring for businesses. The startup just closed a $3.1 million strategic investment from Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and secured a partnership with the group’s… Read More Continue reading Roambee adds $3.1M and a partner to help businesses monitor assets in real-time
After weeks of turf war, two cybercriminals seem to have found a new way to take control and expand the the infamous Mirai botnet. Continue reading Two Hackers Appear To Have Created a New Massive Internet of Things Botnet
Attackers are targeting DSL routers this week with what’s being called a potent new variant of the Mirai malware that knocked offline major Internet companies like Twitter and Spotify last month.
Continue reading New Mirai Variant Targets Routers, Knocks 900,000 Offline
Silver lining! Close to 1 in 20 Deutsche Telekom customers avoided botnet infection because their routers got knocked offline instead. Continue reading Deutsche Telkom outage: Mirai botnet goes double-rogue