Nov 7, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
Oct 25, 2016 | Malware and Exploits
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
Jan 29, 2013 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
The ‘PokerAgent’ botnet, which we have tracked in 2012, was designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats, presumably with the intention to...
Dec 30, 2012 | ESET Mobile Security, General Security, Mobile Security
The amount of malware targeting Android (android trojans) is still growing fast, and Google has promised to crack down. Back in February of this year, Google announced it was hardening its stance on Android security, unveiling an app-scanner (codenamed Bouncer) to...
Dec 14, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
McAfee has warned of an ongoing malware attack which has already compromised hundreds of bank accounts. The McAfee researchers said the attack, known as ‘Project Blitzkrieg’ has already claimed up to 500 victims and could begin to wreak havoc on banking...
