The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been insufficient. A research team at Imperva Incapsula has found that the a variant of the Mirai worm, which it calls […]
A new report from Nominum claims that more than 24 million home routers on the Internet have open DNS proxies which expose ISPs to DNS-based Denial of Service attacks. It goes on to say that in February 2014, 5.3M of these routers were in fact used to attack, and that in January 2014, more than 70% […]
That’s right. Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris is the name of a botnet that was recently discovered by Czech researchers. Why “Chuck Norris”. Well, it comes from a comment that was written in Italian in the botnet’s source code: “in nome di Chuck Norris,” which means “in the name of Chuck Norris.” Okay, but WHY Check […]