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Samsung Galaxy smartphones can be crashed with a single SMS – BetaNews


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Samsung Galaxy smartphones can be crashed with a single SMS
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… number of premium Samsung Galaxy phones which allow attackers to crash devices using a single SMS message and initiate ransomware attacks. The report is part of a series which aims to show "how, even in 2017, SMS-based attacks on Android phones …

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Hackers claim to launched DDoS attack that crashed Pokemon Go servers

Shortly after Pokemon Go launched in 26 new countries, the servers crashed; while sluggish and/or unresponsive servers shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the app’s popularity even before the added audience from countries across the globe, a hacking collective took credit for the attack.

A group of hackers going by “PoodleCorp,” a collective which took credit for hacking popular YouTube channels last month, took to Twitter to claim responsibility for DDoSing the Pokemon Go servers.

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‘Polite terrorist’ crashed Islandnet servers – Abbotsford News

The hacker used a network of computers infected by a virus that allowed them to be controlled remotely and directed all of them to hit the Islandnet servers with data requests until they crashed. A similar style attack was used last December to crash the …
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