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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:38:52 +0000

In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments and guilty pleas by three men in the United States responsible for creating and using Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly-secured “Internet of Things” or IoT devices like security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale cyberattacks. The FBI and the DOJ had help in their investigation from many security experts, but this post focuses on one expert whose research into the Dark Web and its various malefactors was especially useful in that case. Allison Nixon is director of security research at Flashpoint, a cyber intelligence firm based in New York City. Nixon spoke with KrebsOnSecurity at length about her perspectives on IoT security and the vital role of law enforcement in this fight.

Kaspersky Security

December 18, 2017 admin

Loapi — this Trojan is hot!

Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:35:09 +0000

The new Loapi Trojan will recruit your smartphone for DDoS attacks, bombard it with ads, or use it to mine cryptocurrency, making it red-hot.

Kaspersky Security

December 6, 2017 admin

Protecting retail during the holiday season

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:10:00 +0000

These holiday season tips are relevant year-round

Independent Krebs

November 9, 2017 admin

DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:55:52 +0000

In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornography, but his business somehow lived on while he was in prison. Now just weeks after Poland made probation, a mobile version of the attack-for-hire service has gone up for sale on the Google Play store.

Independent MotherBoard Security

October 24, 2017 admin

Bitcoin Gold’s Website Was DDoS’d Into Oblivion Immediately After the Fork

Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:46:26 +0000

Bitcoin Gold’s debut has some quirks.

Kaspersky Security

October 23, 2017 admin

Preparing for tomorrow’s Internet

Credit to Author: Brendan Mangus| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:44:37 +0000

The future doesn’t have to be a dystopian Internet of Things. We just have to prepare.

MalwareBytes Security

October 16, 2017 admin

A week in security (October 9 – October 15)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:00:56 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from Monday, October 9 to Sunday, October 15. We presented our quarterly report, won security awards, and lots more.

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Kaspersky Security

October 6, 2017 admin