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Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed
A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka “BestBuy and Popopret” to…
January 13, 2019
Hackers conducting botnet attacks through 20k hacked WordPress sites
A newly published research from Defiant, a WordPress security firm, reveals that there is a botnet hunting for…
December 7, 2018
FBI & Google shut down largest-ever Ad fraud scheme ‘3VE’
8 suspects behind 3VE have also been identified. Last year in August, the Federal Bureau of Investigation organized a…
November 28, 2018
L0rdix malware on dark web steals data, mines crypto & enslaves PCs as botnet
There’s a new hacking tool circulating in the underground Dark Web forums that let cybercriminals target Microsoft Windows…
November 23, 2018
Hackers illegally selling stolen Fortnite accounts & botnets on Instagram
It is not happening on Dark Web but Instagram. Instagram has become much more than a platform to…
October 6, 2018
Meet GhostDNS: The dangerous malware behind IoT botnet targeting banks
Security researchers at NetLab, a sub-division of the Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, have discovered a new, wide-scale,…
October 2, 2018
Fancy Bear’s VPNfilter malware is back with 7 new modules
Cisco’s Talos researchers have identified that Russia’s VPNfilter is way more dangerous than it is believed to be.…
September 27, 2018
Hackers behind Mirai botnet to avoid jail for working with the FBI
Mirai has been known as one of the most powerful botnets comprised of millions of hacked Internet of…
September 20, 2018
Apache Struts & SonicWall’s GMS exploits key targets of Mirai & Gafgyt IoT malware
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered modified versions of the notorious Mirai and Gafgyt…
September 15, 2018
Russian Cybercriminal Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet
A Russian national namely Peter Yuryeich Levashov has pleaded guilty to operating the Kelihos botnet, which was used…
September 13, 2018