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Use P-to-P Communications Has Increased Fivefold During The Past 12 Months
Jun 5, 2013The number of malware samples that use P-to-P (peer-to-peer) communications has increased fivefold during the past 12 months, according to researchers from security firm Damballa. The largest contributors to this increase are advanced ...
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Security Researchers From Group-IB Have Uncovered a Cyberfraud Operation
May 17, 2013Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, ...
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The People Behind The Ongoing DDoS Attack Campaign Against U.S. Financial Institutions
Jan 14, 2013Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions -- thought by some to be the work of Iran -- ...
Tags: U.S.banks, junk traffic, DDoS attack campaign, U.S.financial institutions
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The People Behind The Ongoing DDoS Attack Campaign Are Using Botnets for Hire
Jan 11, 2013Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — thought by some to be the work of ...
Tags: bank attacks, botnets for hire, cyber attacks, Homeland Security, Iran
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Michael Coppola Demonstrated How SOHO Routers Can Be Turned Into Botnet Clients
Dec 21, 2012Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware. Coppola, who is a security ...
Tags: SOHO routers, botnet clients, backdoored versions, firmware