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Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices

11

Oct

2021

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a “powerful botnet” consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, […]

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Turkish National Charged for DDoS Attack on U.S. Company

30

Sep

2021

The man, Izzet Mert Ozek, 32, allegedly used the WireX botnet, which consists mainly of compromised Android devices, to orchestrate a DDoS attack targeting the victim company’s website, thus preventing users from completing hotel bookings. The attack took place in August 2017. Headquartered in Chicago, the hospitality company “managed and franchised luxury and business hotels, […]

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Hackers Targeting Brazil’s PIX Payment System to Drain Users’ Bank Accounts

29

Sep

2021

Two newly discovered malicious Android applications on Google Play Store have been used to target users of Brazil’s instant payment ecosystem in a likely attempt to lure victims into fraudulently transferring their entire account balances into another bank account under cybercriminals’ control. “The attackers distributed two different variants of banking malware, named PixStealer and MalRhino, […]

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Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices

Turkish National Charged for DDoS Attack on U.S. Company

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