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ISP brought down by warring malware families

ISP brought down by warring malware families

A battle between two rival families of malware is being blamed for the downtime that a Californian ISP suffered earlier this month.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Cloud Computing Has Officially Brought The Global Cyber War To The US … – Business Insider


Business Insider

Cloud Computing Has Officially Brought The Global Cyber War To The US
Business Insider
In fact, U.S. companies are just beginning to realize the increasingly novel dangers of all-out cyberwarfare. Last week Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times reported that a recent cyber attack on major U.S. banks were so powerful because they were

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Hacker Claims Old-School Tactic Brought GoDaddy to Its Knees – TechNewsWorld

Hacker Claims Old-School Tactic Brought GoDaddy to Its Knees
TechNewsWorld
"There are definitely botnets large enough to attack an operation such as GoDaddy," he told TechNewsWorld, "but generally, such large botnets are used by criminals for activities such as bank account theft." "I seriously doubt that a 'hacktivist' is in

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How the world’s largest spam botnet was brought down – The Verge

How the world's largest spam botnet was brought down
The Verge
Android Army. 2692 posts (7 new) Eight months ago, the Grum botnet was estimated to be the largest in the world, pumping out a third of the global volume of spam email. But things changed over the following six months as Atif Mushtaq, senior staff
Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam NetworksTechCrunch

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