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Sabu Wins "Stay Out Of Jail Free" Card For Another Six Months
Sabu, the notorious hacker who became an informant for the federal government, has won a last-minute six-month reprieve before he is sentenced to prison for his role in various cyber-attacks last year.
Hector Xavier Monsegur, the 28 year-old New Yorker who was better known to ... read more
DNSChanger IP address standoff a legal lesson for botnet fighters
The response to DNSChanger malware achieved unprecedented cooperation across the globe, but an ongoing scuffle over takedown procedures highlights challenges for future coordinated US-European take-downs.
This week European IP address registry RIPE NCC reallocated two IP addre... read more
Industrial crimeware sets a blistering pace
Industrialization has been a common theme in discussions of cyber crime and the malicious software used by criminals for several years now, but what does industrialization mean in this context, and what are the implications? In this article I will examine these and related questi... read more
How To Protect Your Commercial Web Server
Public Internet servers are among criminals’ favorite targets. Is your security strategy up to the challenge?
In February, a hacker placed a malicious program on shoe and clothing retailer Opening Ceremony's website. For more than a month, the malware collected the names, ad... read more
Is An International Cyber Regulatory Agency Needed?
I happened to attend Kaspersky Labs’ Cyber Conference 2012: IT Security in the Age of Cyber Warfare in Cancun, the same conference that resulted in this feature piece on its CEO, Eugene Kaspersky. I moderated a panel that included representation of two sides of an ongoing battl... read more
Grum Botnet Bigger and More Complex Than Suspected
The spam botnet known as Grum which was shut down last month contained email addresses for one third of the world's population.
One directory one one Grum control server contained 2.3 billion email addresses.
When the monster spam botnet called Grum was taken offline last mon... read more
DDoS and the collateral damage of hacktivism
Hacktivism cuts both ways. The biter gets bit, and a war evolves. Where there is war, there are weapons. And where there are weapons, there is collateral damage. There is a hacktivist war around Julian Assange, between his detractors and his defenders – and there is collateral ... read more
Russia Today website hit by AntiLeaks' DDoS over Pussy Riot judgement
The website of news channel Russia Today has been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
In a tweet, hacktivist group AntiLeaks said it was "behind the DDoS attack on RT_com" and included a hashtag relating to the concluding case of the Russian band Pussy Riot.
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Inside the Grum Botnet
KrebsOnSecurity has obtained an exclusive look inside the back-end operations of the recently-destroyed Grum spam botnet. It appears that this crime machine was larger and more complex than many experts had imagined. It also looks like my previous research into the identity of th... read more
Paydirt: Vulnerabilities found to foil popular DDoS toolkit - Buggy code lets victims stop attacks
A vulnerability in the command and control (C&C) structure of the infamous Dirt Jumper distributed denial of service (DDoS) toolkits has been detailed which can be used to foil attacks.
The toolkits were based on RussKill and had rapidly become some of the most popular DDoS in... read more
