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Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that's primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against private Minecraft servers. Called MCCrash, the botnet is characterized by a unique spreading mechanism that allows it to propagate to Linux-based devices despite originating from malicious software downloads on Windows hosts.

In addition to a total of seven suspected booter site administrators detained thus far, "Further actions [are] planned against the users of these illegal services," the European cops said. While some of the sites claimed to offer "Stresser" services, ostensibly to help organizations test whether their networks could withstand a DDoS flood, after reviewing "Thousands of communications between booter site administrators and their customers; these communications make clear that both parties are aware that the customer is not attempting to attack their own computers," according to an FBI affidavit [PDF] filed in support of court-authorized warrants to seize the sites.

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks on behalf of other threat actors, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for malicious activity. These websites, although claiming to provide testing services to assess the resilience of a paying customer's web infrastructure, are believed to have targeted several victims in the U.S. and elsewhere, such as educational institutions, government agencies, and gaming platforms.

The US Department of Justice has seized 48 Internet domains and charged six suspects for their involvement in running 'Booter' or 'Stresser' platforms that allow anyone to easily conduct distributed denial of service attacks."Some sites use the term"stresser" in an effort to suggest that the service could be used to test the resilience of one's own infrastructure; however, as described below, I believe this is a façade and that these services exist to conduct DDoS attacks on victim computers not controlled by the attacker, and without the authorization of the victim," reads an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Elliott Peterson out of the Alaska field office.

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Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS...

Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS attack. "At present, the VTB technological infrastructure is under unprecedented cyberattack from abroad," stated a VTB spokesperson to TASS. "It is not only the largest cyberattack recorded this year, but in the entire history of the bank."

While analyzing its capabilities, Akamai researchers have accidentally taken down a cryptomining botnet that was also used for distributed denial-of-service attacks. As revealed in a report published earlier this month, the KmsdBot malware behind this botnet was discovered by members of the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team after it infected one of their honeypots.

5G can reduce - but also create - security riskIn this interview with Help Net Security, Anubhav Arora, VP of Security Engineering at Cradlepoint, talks about the most common 5G security misconceptions, how to make sure the network is safe, but also how 5G can benefit businesses. 5 free resources from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security AgencyThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security.