Suspected North Korean hackers target universities using Chrome extension
Pyongyang's hackers have expanded their targeted base, according to ASERT, the threat intelligence group of Netscout’s Arbor Networks.
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Russian hackers found the ‘ultimate’ hacking tool buried in the supply chain of laptops
Russian-linked hackers found a way to use "Lojack for Laptops" for spying, despite the software's parent company being warned about vulnerabilities multiple times.
Code for massive ‘Memcrashed’ DDoS attack made public
It's been just over a week since the first massive Memcached-fueled denial of service attack. The authors of the new tool is being released "to bring more…
Arbor Networks reports record-breaking 1.7Tbps DDoS attack
The attack used the same memcached technique that was used in the 1.35Tbps attack on GitHub less than a week prior.
Don’t fear the Reaper: Botnet ‘easy to stop,’ says security researcher
The new internet of things botnet, variously known as Reaper, IoT_Reaper or IoTroop, should be easy to stop if it ever attacks, because it uses fixed, hardcoded…
Why a ‘super-Mirai’ attack never happened
A large network of corporate IoT devices that was gathered to launch a massive DDoS attack. Then whomever created it the network decided against using it.
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Arbor: DDoS attacks growing faster in size, complexity
The size of distributed denial of service attacks continued to grow at a faster rate than ever last year, and the attacks also increased in frequency and…