Hackers for some time have been offering malware and crimeware as a service. In the past, these activities were usually carried out through underground forums or Internet Relay Channels (IRC). However, hackers these days have taken a step forward and have started advertising their crimeware activities like DDoS as a service through advertisements on YouTube. [...]
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Hackers openly advertising DDoS services on YouTube
Posted: 5th January 2012 by infosecindia in DDoSTags: cheap DDoS service, crimeware as a service, DDoS, IRC, malware as a service, video
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Anonymous targets neoNazis in operation Blitzkrieg, again!
Posted: 4th January 2012 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: Anonymous, DDoS, Germany, nazi-leaks.net, neoNazis, Operation Blitzkrieg
Hacktivist group Anonymous has yet again decided to target the NeoNazis group in Germany. This time around, the group is publishing lists of alleged donors to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), internal NPD emails, a contacts list from the right-wing weekly newspaperJunge Freiheit and customer data from neo-Nazi online stores, among other information at a [...]
MasterCard website attacked in a Wikileaks-inspired attack
Posted: 28th June 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, NewsTags: Anonymous, DDoS, ibomhacktivist, MasterCard, Wikileaks
MasterCard’s website went offline earlier today following a DDoS attack that seemed to be WikiLeaks-inspired. A Twitter user called ibomhacktivist is taking responsibility for the attack, and links the action to the WikiLeaks-inspired attack on MasterCard by the Anonymous group last year. @ibomhacktivist: MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the [...]
Suspected LulzSec member arrested for Sony hack, group denies association with the convict
Posted: 22nd June 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, Law & Order, NewsTags: arrest, DDoS, Essex, hacker, LulSec, New Scotland Yard, PCeU, Ryan Cleary, UK, UK Census
New Scotland Yard has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker, Ryan Cleary, in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of organisations. The arrest is speculated to be in connection with attacks by LulzSec on Sony, the FBI, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Officers from the Police Central e-Crime [...]
After Spanish arrests, 32 alleged Anonymous members arrested in Turkey
Posted: 13th June 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, Law & OrderTags: Anonymous, DDoS, hacktivist, LOIC, Low Orbit Ion Cannon, Turkey
The Anadolu Agency reported today the alleged members of hacktivist group Anonymous were arrested in 12 cities, including Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey. Turkish police are reported to have detained 32 people in connection with internet attacks that have disrupted access to government websites. The detained suspects have been taken to Ankara for questioning. The arrests come just days [...]
Mariposa botnet rises from the ashes
Posted: 26th May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, Malware, NewsTags: 116 active Mariposa C&C servers, botnet, DDoS, Mariposa, WORM_PALEVO
The Mariposa botnet made headlines when three of its alleged operators were arrested in Spain prior to its supposed shutdown. This was followed by a sudden and drastic decrease in Mariposa-related incidents, which was very understandable because the botnet was reported to have already been taken down. Lately, however, Trend Micro has observed a strange increase in activity [...]
US Strategy for Cyberspace says that US will retaliate hostile acts in cyberspace with military means
Posted: 18th May 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: cyberattacks, DDoS, International Strategy for Cyberspace, US
“When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country. We reserve the right to use all necessary means – diplomatic, informational, military, and economic – as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our Nation, our allies, our partners, and our [...]
Arbor Network launches new anti-DDoS package
Posted: 10th May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: Arbor Networks, botnet, Cloud Signaling, data center, DDoS, IDC, Pravail Availability Protection System, security, Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report
Arbor Networks, a security and network management solutions provider, announced today the Arbor Pravail Availability Protection System (APS), a new product family focused on securing the Internet data center (IDC) edge. An important new capability introduced within the Arbor Pravail APS is Cloud Signaling, a protocol that bridges the gap between the data center edge [...]
Anonymous attacks New Zealand over copyright bill
Posted: 4th May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: Anonymous, DDoS, New Zealand, New Zealand Federation against Copyright Theft
The notorious hacktivist group Anonymous have struck again. The group previously warned the New Zealand government of a series of attacks after the government proposed The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. Anonymous has launched a major operation to chastise the government of New Zealand for what it calls, an act of ‘oppression’. Operating under [...]
North Korean hackers shut down South Korean bank via DDoS attack
Posted: 3rd May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, Law & OrderTags: DDoS, hackers, Kim Jong II, National Intelligence Service, Nonghyup, North Korea, South Korea
North Korea was responsible for paralyzing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation’s computer network in April in a second online attack in two months linked to the Kim Jong II regime, South Korean prosecutors said. According to a Bloomberg report, “Hackers used similar techniques employed in cyber assaults that targeted websites in South Korea and the [...]