The US Justice Department has seized 13 websites that offer distributed denial-of-service attacks for hire, with 10 of the sites being reincarnations of services restricted in a December crackdown. The move is part of Operation PowerOFF, a global initiative aimed at eradicating the sites. The owners of four of the websites have pleaded guilty to charges, having been prosecuted in December.
Outlaw Group Uses SSH Brute-Force to Deploy Cryptojacking Malware on Linux Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details about Outlaw, an “auto-propagating” cryptocurrency mining botnet that targets SSH servers with weak credentials. The Romanian-origin malware performs SSH brute-force
