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Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office websites with DDoS assault

08

Apr

2012

Anonymous hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the websites of 10 Downing Street and the British government’s Home Office website, preventing legitimate users from visiting the sites by flooding them with unwanted internet traffic.The hacktivists, operating under the Anonymous banner, say that they have launched the action in support of Pentagon hacker Gary […]

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OSX.Flashback Rises on Java Vulnerability

07

Apr

2012

Recent media reports about the OSX.Flashback malware have put the size of the botnet at over 600,000. The botnet is believed to have reached this size by using vulnerabilities such as the Oracle Java SE Remote Java Runtime Environment Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507, BID 51261) to spread the malware through exploit kits like Blackhole. […]

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Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants

06

Apr

2012

Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new samples that turned out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations in network traffic and control commands.The Darkshell bot follows a […]

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