Developing an incident response playbook

An incident response playbook is a predefined set of actions to address a specific security incident such as malware infection, violation of security policies, DDoS attack, etc. Its main goal is to enable a large enterprise security team to respond to cyberattacks in a timely and effective manner...

GHSA-67G8-C724-8MP3 DDOS attack on graphql endpoints

An attacker could use a specially crafted graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack DDOS attack against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed and particularly large/complex graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public...

DDOS attack on graphql endpoints

An attacker could use a specially crafted graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack DDOS attack against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed and particularly large/complex graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public...

CVE-2023-28104 DDOS attack on graphql endpoints

More info at https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/CVE-2023-28104...

Akamai Mitigates Record DDoS Attack in Asia-Pacific (900 Gbps)

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Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client

At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. However, due to Gcore's...

K97810133: BIND vulnerability CVE-2020-8616

Security Advisory Description A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an...

⚡Top Cybersecurity News Stories This Week — Cybersecurity Newsletter

Hey 👋 there, cyber friends! Welcome to this week's cybersecurity newsletter, where we aim to keep you informed and empowered in the ever-changing world of cyber threats. In today's edition, we will cover some interesting developments in the cybersecurity landscape and share some insightful analys...

Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...

Race condition

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness in the memory management of the Packet Forwarding Engine PFE on Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved PTX10003 Series devices allows an adjacently located attacker who has established certain preconditions and knowledge of the environme...

PT-2023-5866

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache HTTP Server versions prior to 2.4.57 Bamboo Data Center and Server versions 8.1.0, 8.2.0, 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.1, and 9.3.0 F5 NGINX products affected versions not specified gRPC-Go versions prior to 1.56.3, 1.57.1, and 1.58.3 IBM HTTP...

Zerobot Botnet Emerges as a Growing Threat with New Exploits and Capabilities

The Zerobot DDoS botnet has received substantial updates that expand on its ability to target more internet-connected devices and scale its network. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC is tracking the ongoing threat under the moniker DEV-1061, its designation for unknown, emerging, or...

Microsoft research uncovers new Zerobot capabilities

Botnet malware operations are a constantly evolving threat to devices and networks. Threat actors target Internet of Things IoT devices for recruitment into malicious operations as IoT devices’ configurations often leave them exposed, and the number of internet-connected devices continue to grow...

FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on behalf of other threat actors, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for malicious activity. It also charged six suspects – Jeremi...

IT Army of Ukraine Hit Russian Banking Giant with Crippling DDoS Attack

By Habiba Rashid The bank confirmed that it had "experienced an unprecedented cyber attack from abroad." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IT Army of Ukraine Hit Russian Banking Giant with Crippling DDoS Attack...

How can we Prevent an Internet of Compromised Things?

The shape of things to come An increasing array of physical household and business objects now come with a plethora of sensors, software, and processing abilities, connecting to like-minded devices and swapping data with additional systems via the internet or across networks. These objects and...

The Worrying Rise of Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS)

What is CaaS? Put simply, Cybercrime as a Service CaaS means black hat hackers for hire. Now, any ex-employee with a grudge, any disgruntled customer, any troubled ex-partner, or vindictive competitor, literally anyone with the right browser, can hire a dark web bad actor to perform...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.0 release and security update

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7.0 zip release is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and Microsoft Windows. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which give...

Out with the WAF, in with the WAAP

Advanced attacks call for advanced protection Bad actors are constantly discovering new attack vectors to exploit applications. To meet the threat, organizations need enterprise-level security more now than ever. Traditionally, implementing a Web Application Firewall WAF would be enough to secure...

Mirai Botnet Hits Wynncraft Minecraft Server with 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare disclosed this week that it halted a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack launched by a Mirai botnet. Characterizing it as a "multi-vector attack consisting of UDP and TCP floods," researcher Omer Yoachimik said the DDoS attack...