Memcached-fueled 1.3 Tbps attacks

At 17:28 GMT, February 28th, Akamai experienced a 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack against one of our customers, a software development company, driven by memcached reflection. This attack was the largest attack seen to date by Akamai, more than twice the size of the September, 2016 attacks that announced th...

Memcached Amplification Attack (UDP, Memcrashed) - Active Check

A publicly accessible Memcached server can be exploited to participate in a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals behind distributed denial of service attacks have added a new and highly effective technique to their arsenal to amplify attacks by as much as 51,200x by using misconfigured memcached servers accessible via the public internet. The technique was reported by Akamai, Arbor Networks a...

Memcached Servers Abused for Massive Amplification DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of major websites and Internet infrastructure. In recent days, security researchers at Cloudflare, Arbor...

Memcached Stats Amplification Scanner

This module can be used to discover Memcached servers which expose the unrestricted UDP port 11211. A basic "stats" request is executed to check if an amplification attack is possible against a third party. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Memcached UDP Reflection Attacks

Akamai is aware of a new DDoS reflection attack vector: UDP-based memcached traffic. Memcached is a tool meant to cache data and reduce strain on heavier data stores, like disk or databases. The protocol allows the server to be queried for information about key value stores and is only intended t...

New Rapidly-Growing IoT Botnet Threatens to Take Down the Internet

Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet. Dubbed 'IoTreaper,' first spotted in September by researchers at...

Network Time Protocol Control Mode Unauthenticated Trap Information Disclosure and DDoS Amplification Vulnerability(CVE-2016-9310)

Summary An exploitable configuration modification vulnerability exists in the control mode mode 6 functionality of ntpd. A specially crafted control mode packet can set ntpd traps, providing information disclosure and DDoS amplification, and unset ntpd traps, preventing legitimate monitoring. A...

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of timespan are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing dates. The amplification for this vulnerability is significant, with 50,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 10 seconds. Recommendation No direct patch is...

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of marked are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. The amplification in this vulnerability is significant, with 1,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 6 seconds. Recommendation Update to version 0.3.9 or later. References ...

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of tough-cookie are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service. The amplification on this vulnerability is relatively low - it takes around 2 seconds for the engine to execute on a malicious input which is 50,000 characters in length. If node was compiled usi...

DNSSEC RR Stub Resolver Denial Of Service Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/perl DNS/DNSSEC RR stub resolvers amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose...

DNS/DNSSEC RR Stub Resolver Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl DNS/DNSSEC RR stub resolvers amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The...

rpcinfo Portmap DUMP Call Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/perl rpcinfo Portmap 'DUMP' call amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONL...

IoT mDNS/DNS-SD QM Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl IoT mDNS/DNS-SD 'QM' amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The usual...

IoT mDNS / DNS-SD QM Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service Exploit

IoT mDNS/DNS-SD QM amplification distributed denial of service exploit. !/usr/bin/perl IoT mDNS/DNS-SD 'QM' amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for...

rpcinfo Portmap DUMP Call Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl rpcinfo Portmap 'DUMP' call amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : strongswan (SUSE-SU-2017:1473-1)

This update for strongswan fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-9022: Insufficient Input Validation in gmp Plugin leads to Denial of service bsc1039514 - CVE-2017-9023: Incorrect x509 ASN.1 parser error handling could lead to Denial of service bsc1039515 - IKEv1 protocol is vulnerable to DoS...

[ASA-201705-19] fop: xml external entity injection

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-19 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-05-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-5661 Package : fop Type : xml external entity injection Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-254 Summary ======= The package fop before...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6519

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic amplification and may cause information leakage by obtaining potentially sensitive information...