Researchers say Necurs malware has been updated with a module that adds SOCKS/HTTP proxy and DDOS capabilities to this malware.
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Lloyds Banking Group hit with distributed denial of service attack
Lloyds Banking Group fell victim to an attempted cyberattack earlier this month, which saw cybercriminals attempt to crash the online banking service over a two day period.
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Github Mitigates DDoS Attack
Github said it turned back a distributed denial of service attack; it’s unknown whether this attack is related to a similar attack this March.
Attackers Revive Deprecated RIPv1 Routing Protocol in DDoS Attacks
An advisory from Akamai warns of a recent reflection style DDoS attack in which the deprecated RIPv1 routing protocol was leveraged against targets.