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Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet
A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to...
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DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App
In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites...
View ArticleExpert: IoT Botnets the Work of a ‘Vast Minority’
In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments and guilty pleas by three men in the United States responsible for creating and using Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves...
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Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion
Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the...
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Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members
Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on...
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Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K
A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked “Internet...
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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a...
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German Cops Raid “Cyberbunker 2.0,” Arrest 7 in Child Porn, Dark Web Market...
German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn,...
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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from “Meris,” the same new botnet behind...
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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime
Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The candid...
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