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An ad-hoc alliance of tech firms has managed to seriously cripple an Android-based botnet that was being actively used to DDoS multiple content providers. The botnet, dubbed WireX by the...
WireX launched DDoS Attacks Using At Least 70,000 DevicesWhat was perhaps the largest-ever botnet composed of infected Android devices has been disabled. The Wirex botnet cleverly used legitimate...
A large botnet of Android devices called WireX is responsible for large-scale application-layer DDoS attacks against businesses in the hospitality, porn and gambling industries.
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Do you believe that just because you have downloaded an app from the official app store, you're safe from malware? Think twice before believing it. A team of security researchers from several...
Russian National Maxim Senakh Was Extradited From Finland to Face US ChargesMaxim Senakh, who was extradited from Finland to the United States to face charges related to Ebury botnet attacks, has...
A 41-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced to 46 months in prison by a court in the U.S. state of Minnesota for his role in a cybercrime scheme involving a botnet powered by the Linux...
An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers....
ESET researchers have unearthed a botnet of some 500,000 infected machines engaged mostly in ad-related fraud by using malicious Chrome extensions, but also Facebook fraud and brute-forcing Joomla...
Researchers discovered an active Twitter botnet made up of 38,000 bots, generating 8.5 million tweets and netting over 30 million clicks from its victims.