BitDefender is reporting that a social network Twitter is now being used to control botnets and in fact the SDK (Software Development Kit) for do it yourself Botnets is now available.
More of this can be read at Help Net Security.
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A new type of bot being operated out there on the Internet, now interestingly enough is using Web Servers for initiating a DoS (Denial of Service) attack, as opposed to home or business PCs.
The notion is that since web servers have high-speed connectivity to the Internet vs. your average home PC, better to compromise a single web server for a DoS attack rather than 50 PCs.
More can be read on this here on CNet: New DoS attack uses Web Servers as Zombies
Two major Australian atheist website get DDoS. Read more about it here.
JustBet.com website is under attack. Read more about this here.
Sedo: .de brings in .dos!
Oct 25
Sedo, the domain name auctioneer said, that it was not the intense bidding activity for the one, two and three character .de names that bought its website down, but in fact a denial of service attack. Read more about it here.
As with everything else in life, the number of attacks, in this case, DoS attacks have grown, whilst the cost of actually doing a DoS attack has dropped. Read more on this here.
The Register has a well-written article on the post-DDoS scenario and analysis of what happened at BitBucket. BitBucket as you may know was a customer on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and it got DDoS’d big time. This article clearly spells out that it was actually Amazon that was at fault, by exposing their internal storage network to the outside world to be DDoS.
Zeus Bot Tracker.
Oct 9
Here is perhaps one of the most professional tracking websites that I have seen for a Bot. Abuse.ch is a website that tracks the ZeuS hosts around the world. More at https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/index.php
Comcast launched a new service, that will be geared at providing their users with in-browser alerts/notifications about possible viruses / infections, etc.
Stevens Institute of Technology will get funded by NSF for Defense from Denial of Service Attacks.