ddos attacks

South Australian police said in a statement that a 20-year old man from Adelaide was arrested on charges of infecting 3000 computers worldwide with Trojan malware capable of capturing banking credentials and credit card information from compromised machines. The arrest was made following a three-month investigation by electronic crime units from SA Police and the Australian Federal force.

It was announced that an attack on a domain registrar in China caused access problems for millions of internet users earlier this week.

As a chain reaction touched off by a distributed denial-of-service attack on the domain name of system servers of DNSPod, Internet service in at least five provinces including Shanxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Hebei was negatively affected.

AlterGold… This payment system became a real hit this year. First it was an ambitious launch of the system heated by the numerous posts on the forums. Then an aggressive PR of it… But last months all the discussions were related to the problems with AG. Everything began with the press release of AG that was issued in two parts and e-mailed to all the users. Among various “happy news” there was one point stating that AlterGold stops all the operations on AG currency exchange: