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Tag Archives: Botnet
Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud
Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.
Don’t let the crooks ‘borrow’ your home router as a hacking server
Crooks don’t have to break *into* your network to benefit – they can bounce *off* it so you take the blame and look like a hacker yourself.
Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware
Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.
US feds’ names, home and email addresses hacked and posted online
A group of hackers that doxxed thousands of federal law enforcement employees last week has struck again.
Backdoored GitHub accounts spewed secret sneakerbot software
Researchers have uncovered a network of GitHub accounts containing backdoored versions of legitimate software.
FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.
Text CAPTCHAs easily beaten by neural networks
As CAPTCHA-haters know to their frequent irritation, the death of the text-based Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart tends to be exaggerated.
Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.
Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged
The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.