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23 May

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group. Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit have discovered an advanced...
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28 Aug

WireX DDoS Botnet: An Army of Thousands of Hacked Android SmartPhones

Do you believe that just because you have downloaded an app from the official app store, you’re safe from malware? Think twice before believing it. A team of security researchers from several security firms have uncovered a new, widespread botnet...
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16 Jul

Army Computer Networks Face ‘Tens, Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Hack Attempts Daily

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans U.S. adversaries engage in as many as hundreds of thousands of attempts to hack into each day, according to the chief of U.S. Army Cyber Command. These attacks come from a...
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10 May

How the U.S. Army Is Using OpenStack to Train Cyber-Warriors

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans At the OpenStack Summit, U.S. Army officers explain how they moved to an open-source cloud system to train cyber-warriors to defend, attack and exploit. The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is now...
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5 May

An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies

A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment, as it requires an enormous amount of computing power,...
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24 Apr

Army authorities foil hackers’ bid for sensitive information

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Many serving Indian Army officers have received a suspicious e-mail purportedly from the principal controller of defence accounts (officers) PCDA (O). The email contained a link and asked the recipients …...
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17 Mar

Anonymous’ Joins Hacker Army Targeting Central Banks for Cash

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In 2008, a group of thieves stole $700,000 from Russia’s central bank the old-fashioned way: they infiltrated a processing center, handcuffed a guard, and made off with the cash. These days,...
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15 Nov

ARMY BUG BOUNTY BUILDING NEW RELATIONSHIPS WITH HACKERS

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The backdrop to the U.S. government’s first public-facing bug bounty program announced earlier this year was that the Hack the Pentagon program was a way to connect with legitimate researchers and...
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22 Oct

An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today

A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, PayPal,...
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29 Sep

37-Year-Old ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Hacker Pleads Guilty in US court

One of the FBI’s Most Wanted Hackers who was arrested in Germany earlier this year has pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in a scheme that hacked computers and targeted the US government, foreign governments, and multiple US...
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