In a recent Slate editorial, tech academic Josephine Wolff compared a rapidly growing new bot made up of millions of compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the frightening anticipation of a hurricane gathering strength. Wolff said a … [Read more...] about The Reaper Botnet is Here
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Akamai Identifies New Fast Flux Botnet
Fast Flux is a DNS technique first introduced in 2006 which can be used by botnets to disguise different types of malicious activities (including malware delivery and communication, phishing and web proxying) behind a continuously shifting network of … [Read more...] about Akamai Identifies New Fast Flux Botnet
DDoS Attacks On the Bitcoin Ecosystem
On October 24, 2017, a new cryptocurrency - Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - became the latest “fork” of the original Bitcoin with the explicit mission to “Make Bitcoin Decentralized Again”. The project's website immediately came under “massive” … [Read more...] about DDoS Attacks On the Bitcoin Ecosystem