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This article aims to help you by explaining what is the PythonBot adware program and how to remove it from your computer plus stop it from mining cryptocurrencies and displaying ads. A very dangerous evolving type of adware has been…Read more
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Recently, we came across a Python-based sample dropped by an exploit kit. Although it arrives under the disguise of a MinerBlocker, it has nothing in common with miners. In fact, it seems to be PBot: a Python-based adware.
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Massive denial of service attacks were largely missing from the internet this summer, according to new research from Akamai. The second quarter of 2017 marks the first time in three years that the company didn’t see a denial of service attack measuring over 100 gigabits per second. That’s down from two such attacks at the beginning of 2017, Akamai’s Martin McKeay told CyberScoop. The biggest attack of the quarter saw PBot DDoS malware used to launch a 75 gigabits per second attack using 400 nodes against a financial organization. That’s an extraordinarily small number of nodes compared to the usual scope of these attacks, which can reach into the tens of thousands. Even so, the weaponized traffic was significant. The small number of nodes but large traffic from the PBot attack was characteristic of trends throughout the quarter. Akamai saw a 28 percent increase in DDoS attacks, but the number of unique IP […]
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