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Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet

August 28, 2017 admin Akamai, Allison Nixon, Android malware, Chad Seaman, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, Flashpoint, google, Mirai, Other, Play store, WireX botnet

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000

A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.

Independent Krebs

Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye

July 28, 2017 admin Agence France Presse, BestBuy, Daniel Kaye, GovRAT, Liberia, Mirai, Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:13:42 +0000

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale online attacks. Today, a German court issued a suspended sentence for Kaye, who now faces related cybercrime charges in the United Kingdom.

Independent Krebs

Experts in Lather Over ‘gSOAP’ Security Flaw

July 18, 2017 admin Brian Karas, Genivia, gSOAP vulnerability, IPVM, Mirai, Other, Robert Van Engelen, Senrio, Stephen Ridley, XML

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:30:11 +0000

Axis Communications — a maker of high-end security cameras whose devices can be found in many high-security areas — recently patched a dangerous coding flaw in virtually all of its products that an attacker could use to remotely seize control over or crash the devices. The problem wasn’t specific to Axis, which seems to have reacted far more quickly than competitors to quash the bug. Rather, the vulnerability resides in open-source, third-party computer code that has been used in countless products and technologies (including a great many security cameras), meaning it may be some time before most vulnerable vendors ship out a fix — and even longer before users install it.

Independent Krebs

Who is the GovRAT Author and Mirai Botmaster ‘Bestbuy’?

July 5, 2017 admin BestBuy, Binaryvision.co.il, BlueCoat, danielkaye02@gmail.com, Deutsche Telekom, GovRAT, infoarmor, Mirai, Other, parkajackets@gmail.com, popopret, spdr, spdr01@gmail.com, spider man, Symantec, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:25:14 +0000

In February 2017, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested a 29-year-old U.K. man on suspicion of knocking more than 900,000 Germans offline in an attack tied to Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves Internet of Things (IoT) devices like security cameras and Internet routers for use in large-scale cyberattacks. Investigators haven’t yet released the man’s name, but news reports suggest he may be better known by the hacker handle “Bestbuy.” This post will follow a trail of clues back to one likely real-life identity of Bestbuy.

MalwareBytes Security

Five unsettling cyberthreats

May 30, 2017 admin Botnet, cyberthreats, ddos, IoT, law, Mirai, Mirai botnet, Rats, Security world, Technology, vnc

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:39:46 +0000

Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. Here are 5 cyberthreats that if you’re not frightened by, you should be.

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Tags: botnet cyberthreats ddos IoT law mirai Mirai botnet RATs vnc

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MalwareBytes Security

5 Unsettling cyberthreats

May 24, 2017 admin Botnet, cyberthreats, ddos, IoT, law, Mirai, Mirai botnet, Rats, Security world, Technology, vnc

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:39:46 +0000

Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. Here are 5 cyberthreats that if you’re not frightened by, you should be.

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Tags: botnet cyberthreats ddos IoT law mirai Mirai botnet RATs vnc

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Independent Krebs

UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service

April 25, 2017 admin booter service, Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, ERSOU, Hackforums, Lizard Squad, Martin Peters, Mirai, Other, Rutgers University, stresser service, stressor, Titanium Stresser, U.K. Computer Misuse Act

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:06:34 +0000

A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to “Titanium Stresser,” a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users. Adam Mudd of Herfordshire, U.K. admitted to three counts of computer misuse connected with his creating and operating the attack service, also known as a “stresser” or “booter” tool. Services like Titanium Stresser coordinate so-called “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks that hurl huge barrages of junk data at a site in a bid to make it crash or become otherwise unreachable to legitimate visitors.

Security Wired

Security News This Week: Unmasking the Master of That Web-Crippling Botnet

January 22, 2017 admin hacks, IoT, Mirai, Security, security news, security news this week

Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Unmasking the Master of That Web-Crippling Botnet appeared first on WIRED.