The share of Linux botnets is continuing to grow—accounting for 70% of attacks in Q3, compared to 51% in Q2. According to Kaspersky Lab’s Q3 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report, experts have continued to see an increase in the number of countries where resources have been targeted, with 98 countries subjected to DDoS attacks in the […]

US federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a 46-year-old man with hiring a cyberhitman – well, technically, three hacking services – to launch a year-long campaign of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on his former employer. Prosecutors say that John Kelsey Gammell, 46, contacted seven DDoS services and paid monthly subscriptions to three of […]

Poor mobile app development practices have created the Eavesdropper vulnerability, which has resulted in a large-scale data exposure from nearly 700 apps in enterprise mobile environments, over 170 of which are live in the official app stores today. The affected Android apps alone have been downloaded up to 180 million times. According to researchers at […]

Amazon announced a series of new security features for its cloud platform on Nov. 8, providing users with enhanced capabilities to help protect S3 storage buckets and virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections. The company is launching the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) security features ahead of its re:invent conference, which runs from Nov. 27 […]

Code hosting service GitHub now warns developers if certain software libraries used by their projects contain any known vulnerabilities and provides advice on how to address the issue. GitHub recently introduced the Dependency Graph, a feature in the Insights section that lists the libraries used by a project. The feature currently supports JavaScript and Ruby, […]

A recently observed Zeus Panda banking Trojan attack used poisoned Google search results for specific banking related keywords to infect users, Cisco Talos researchers warn. As part of this attack, the actor behind Zeus Panda used Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to make their malicious links more prevalent in the search results. By targeting financial-related keyword […]