Botnets
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Duo unravels three-tiered ‘crypto-giveaway’ botnet
News Researchers used a machine learning model to weed through 88 million Twitter accounts for bots and spammers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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IoT revenue opportunity to exceed $1 trillion by 2025
News More than half of IoT devices will be deployed in enterprises as the market shifts away from connectivity
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Infected Android apps back on Google Play after name change
News Symantec discovers seven malicious apps sneaked back onto Google Play with different names
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Github weathers world's largest DDoS attack
News The site had just ten minutes of downtime
By Adam Shepherd Published
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Researchers warn of nine CVEs in Dell EMC's Isilon platform
News The company's OneFS storage OS is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries and privilege escalation
By Adam Shepherd Published
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2017's biggest security horror stories
In-depth The year's worst security incidents we'd hate to see again in 2018
By Jane McCallion Published
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Task force silences massive Andromeda botnet
News The botnet is thought to have spewed malware from two million infected devices
By Dale Walker Published
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DDoS attacks blamed on 70,000-strong Android botnet
News Security researchers discover Mirai-style 'WireX' botnet
By Adam Shepherd Published
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US college hit by 54-hour Mirai DDoS attack
News New Mirai variant unleashed a 30,000 RPS storm higher education institution
By Jane McCallion Published
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FTC: D-Link IoT devices put thousands of customers at risk
News D-Link calls Federal Trade Commission's claims "vague and unsubstantiated"
By Dale Walker Published
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Mirai botnet did not knock Liberia's internet offline
News West African country didn't suffer nationwide outage last week, contrary to reports
By Adam Shepherd Published
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Botnets live long and prosper despite cyber security efforts
News Increased cyber-vigilance failing to reduce operating life of botnet servers
By Jane McCallion Published
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