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Mirai Botnet Spreads to Thousands of UK Routers
| Phenny Lynn Palec | | Dec 10, 2016 03:15 AM EST |
A new variant of Mirai, the botnet that nearly crippled half of Germany’s Internet service, has spread across the United Kingdom infecting about 2,400 home routers. Security researchers said that these infected routers are being used to carry out massive distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS).
Hacking Group Rewards Hackers for Participating in DDoS Attacks
| Phenny Lynn Palec | | Dec 09, 2016 09:40 PM EST |
A cyberattack group based in Turkey is offering interested hackers to join a dedicated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platform and earn points which can then be exchanged for certain hacking tools. The platform is called Surface Defense and it asks hackers to target political websites using a DDoS tool called Balyoz which literally translates to Sledgehammer.
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