Q&A: Botnets and information warfare
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In 2017, City, University of London research by Dr. Marco Bastos was featured in exclusive story by…
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One of the Most Powerful DDoS Attacks Ever Hits a Crypto Platform
A cryptocurrency platform was recently on the receiving end of one of the biggest distributed denial of service attacks ever recorded, after threat actors bombarded it with 15.3 million requests, the content-delivery network Cloudflare…
Using blockchain contracts to build botnets
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Blockchain is a decentralized ledger technology that secures the integrity of transactions through digital…
Mirai splinter botnets dominate IoT attack scene | ZDNet
Botnets built from the Mirai codebase continue to wreak havoc in the technology arena, with cyberattackers taking advantage of lax Internet of…
Log4j RCE activity began on December 1 as botnets start using vulnerability | ZDNet
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The usage of the nasty…
College for cyber criminals: Dark web crooks are teaching courses on how to build botnets | ZDNet
Botnets are one of the key drivers of cyberattacks, used to distribute malware, ransomware and other malicious payloads – and dark web forums are…