This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.

Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS.

Analysis by DNS provider Dyn hints that more than 1 terabyte per second of traffic may have been used in last week’s massive DDoS attack that impacted Internet service on the East Coast.

DVR’s, IP-enabled cameras, home cable equipment and many other IOT connected devices are that latest in potent DDoS tools available to attackers.

An attacker known as Anna-senpai released source code for the Mirai malware, which was used in a 620 Gbps DDoS attack against Krebs on Security.

Researchers have uncovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) that can evade sandbox analysis, is adept at carrying out espionage, and is being used in targeted threat operations. Named Trochilus, the malware is part of a multi-pronged malware operation that researchers at Arbor Networks are calling the Seven Pointed Dagger (.PDF). The cluster also includes malware such as PlugX, the 9002...