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Botnet preying on Linux computers delivers potent DDoS attacks

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EITHER/XOR

Security researchers have uncovered a network of infected Linux computers that’s flooding gaming and education sites with as much as 150 gigabits per second of malicious traffic—enough in some cases to take the targets completely offline.

The XOR DDoS or Xor.DDoS botnet, as the distributed denial-of-service network has been dubbed, targets as many as 20 sites each day, according to an advisory published Tuesday by content delivery network Akamai Technologies. About 90 percent of the targets are located in Asia. In some cases, the IP address of the participating bot is spoofed in a way that makes the compromised machines appear to be part of the network being targeted. That technique can make it harder for defenders to stop the attack.

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Chinese ad firm pwns Android users, creates hijackable global botnet – The Register

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Chinese ad firm pwns Android users, creates hijackable global botnet
The Register
A Chinese advertising company has infected and 'completely' hijacked likely hundreds of thousands of Android handsets with an attack so careless it exposes a global botnet to easy hijacking and opens handsets to total compromise by any malware. FireEye …
Chinese firm attacks Android phones via malware-laced appsV3.co.uk
Chinese Marketing Firm Spreads Adware to Promote Its App PortfolioSoftpedia News

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Bunitu Trojan botnet supports commercial VPN infrastructure – ZDNet

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Bunitu Trojan botnet supports commercial VPN infrastructure
ZDNet
The malware, part of a wider botnet, is slow to evolve and can be picked up by antivirus solutions. While the code is not the most stealthy in existence, distribution of the malware has led researchers to discover connections between Bunitu and a well …

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Cybersquad takes down Beebone botnet – ZDNet

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Cybersquad takes down Beebone botnet
ZDNet
credkaspersky.png Kaspersky Labs. The Beebone botnet, used to deliver multiple malware payloads to compromised machines, has been shut down by US and European forces. On 8 April, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint …

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