A hacker has taken only 24 hours to build a botnet which is at least 18,000-devices strong. …read more Source:: Open Source S
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Internet security: Slaying the botnet beast and the DDoS dragon
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•Botnets and DDoS attacks continue to grow in scale. Tackling them is no easy task, says a US government report. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Mirai botnet adds three new attacks to target IoT devices
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•This new version of the botnet uses exploits instead of brute force attacks to gain control of unpatched devices. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Mirai botnet attacker pleads guilty for role in 2016 internet cyberattack
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•The Mirai botnet threw vast swathes of the US internet offline in a cyberattack last year. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Fear the Reaper? Experts reassess the botnet’s size and firepower
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•Security researchers now say the botnet could be only as big as 28,000 infected devices, but warn that the figure could balloon in size at any given time. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Security consortium emerges to fight WireX botnet on Android
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•Akamai, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Oracle Dyn, RiskIQ, Team Cymru, and others teamed up to combat the Android-targeting WireX botnet. …read more Source:: Open Source S
120,000 IoT cameras vulnerable to new Persirai botnet say researchers
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•Internet connected cameras across the globe are easy to find and hijack to carry out DDoS attacks. …read more Source:: Open Source S