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MasterCard.com website down in apparent Wikileaks-motivated internet attack

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Jun

2011

MasterCard’s website is currently inaccessible following what appears to be a WikiLeaks-inspired internet attack against it. In what appears to be the latest salvo by hactivists, the mastercard.com website is thought to be suffering from a denial-of-service attack – where an internet site is bombarded with a large amount of traffic making it impossible for […]

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32 Anonymous suspects arrested in Turkey

13

Jun

2011

Turkish police are reported to have detained 32 people in connection with internet attacks that have disrupted access to government websites. Alleged members of the loosely-knit Anonymous hacktivist group were rounded up in 12 cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, just days after similar arrests of Anonymous suspects in Spain. At the end of last week, […]

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Fashion site falls into the hands of Russian Blackhat ISP Webalta

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May

2011

This German site (in-vogue.de) is hosting malware:in-vogue.de/Scripts/DSC000034774321.exeVirusTotal (4/43)Upon execution you might see fireworks (if you are running Process Explorer):This is poorly written malware, although whoever wrote it made sure it would run after a reboot:After execution, the malware downloads an additional component from: in-vogue.de/Scripts/update.exe (Virus Total 4/42).Also noticeable are constant pings to 92.241.168.23 (Russian IP).The IP […]

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