World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack

In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...

World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack

In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...

DDoS Attacks, Attacks from Asia/Pacific Up in Q2

Three-quarters of the world’s attack traffic emanates from source IP addresses in Indonesia and China, according to Akamai’s latest quarterly State of the Internet report. The report is a deep dive into traffic trends crossing the Cambridge, Ma.-based company’s network during the second quarter...

Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments

Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign, dubbed ‘Icefog’, who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out...

Icefog Targeted APT Attacks Hit South Korea, Japan

An espionage campaign featuring precise targeting of victims and malware that allows the attackers one-on-one interaction with compromised systems has been uncovered. Government agencies, manufacturers, high tech companies and media organizations in South Korea and Japan have been the primary...

iMessage Chat app for Android Worries Security Experts

UPDATE – Security experts and mobile developers are warning Android users to steer clear of an app purporting to be an Android version of Apple’s iMessage technology. The app has been pulled from Google Play according to a Google spokesperson, but it remains available on several third party sites...

Paypal BBP #99 - Filter Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Paypal BBP 99 - Filter Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=984 PayPal Security UID: nj1071UU Release Date: ============= 2013-09-18 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

WellinTech Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on December 10, 2013, and is now being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT Web site. NCCIC/ICS-CERT received reports from the Zero Day Initiative ZDI regarding a remote code execution vulnerability and an information...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

China hit by massive DDoS attack causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours. Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single...

China hit by massive DDoS attack causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours. Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single...

China .cn Domain Available Again after DDoS Attack

Long fingered as the source of denial-of-service attacks and other hacks against foreign interests, China’s .cn domain was targeted on Sunday and approximately one-third of the sites registered to that domain were kept offline for a period of time. A statement from the China Internet Network...

Poison Ivy RAT Spotted in Three New China Attacks

The Poison Ivy remote access Trojan may be old, but it’s not losing favor with nation states that continue to make it the center piece of targeted attacks. Three groups of hackers, reportedly all with ties to China and possibly related in terms of their funding and training, are currently managin...

Aumlib, Ixeshe Malware Updated in Targeted China Attacks

After a quiet period, the state-sponsored hacker group blamed for attacks on the New York Times late last year has begun a number of new campaigns that feature updated versions of malware used in attacks going back to 2009. Researchers at FireEye said the group, identified as APT 12 by forensics...

US Top Source of Web Application Attacks

The United States is no longer the most obese country in the world thanks to Mexico, but it still ranks No. 1 as the preeminent global source of Web-based attacks, according to the Imperva Web Application Attack Report. The report also notes that attackers are targeting retail-related application...

Disaster date: the Internet in China was tragically Struts2 high-risk vulnerabilities-torn-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Struts is the Apache Foundation's Jakarta project team an open source project, Struts by using Java Servlet/JSP technology, the Java EE-based Web applications Model-View-Controller（MVC design pattern application framework, MVC is a classic design pattern in a classic product. Currently, the Strut...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow with the help of Wikileaks

Edward Snowden, The Whistleblower who revealed the existence of a secret US online surveillance program left Hong Kong and has landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with help of Wikileaks. WikiLeaks said in a statement that its legal adviser Sarah Harrison was on the plane with Mr Snowden and...

Paypal BugBounty #13 - Mail Encoding Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Paypal BugBounty 13 - Mail Encoding Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=650 PayPal Security UID: cga1a7oh Release Date: ============= 2013-06-17 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims, NSA has been hacking China since 2009

Edward Snowden, the self confessed NSA Whistleblower of secret surveillance documents, claimed Wednesday that the United States intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world, specially Chinese targets since 2009. Snowden alleged that the Prism program, which collects...