New DDoS Attack Method Demands a Fresh Approach to Amplification Assault Mitigation

Amplification attack vectors are some of the most commonly used tools in the DDoS attacker’s arsenal. In the last quarter of 2017, we saw NTP amplification employed in roughly 33 percent of all DDoS assaults against our customers, while DNS and SSDP amplification vectors played a part in 17 perce...

Denmark’s largest train operator hit by service crippling DDoS attack

By Waqas Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Denmark's largest train operator hit by service crippling DDoS attack...

Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked "Internet of Things" IoT devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A ne...

Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Spills 25K in Private Investor, Promoter Data

A leaky Mongo database exposed personal information, including scanned passports and driver’s licenses, of 25,000 investors and potential investors tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency, according to researchers. Kromtech Security said that it found the unprotected data on March 30, adding that it...

A Mirai Botnet Postscript: Lessons Learned

The fall 2016 Mirai botnet compromised more than 300,000 IoT devices as part of a massive DDoS attack. After the crippling attack, Flashpoint and Akamai worked together with law enforcement to help bring those behind the botnet attack to justice. Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint’...

Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit - DDoS Attack Tool For Sending Forged UDP Packets To Vulnerable Memcached Servers Obtained Using Shodan API

This tool allows you to send forged UDP packets to Memcached servers obtained from Shodan.io Prerequisites The only thing you need installed is Python 3.x apt-get install python3 You also require to have Scapy and Shodan modules installed pip install scapy pip install shodan Using Shodan API This...

LocalTapiola: xmlrpc.php FILE IS enable it will used for bruteforce attack and denial of service

hy https://www.lahitapiolarahoitus.fi is wordpress site Wordpress that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. The website https://www.lahitapiolarahoitus.fi has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially...

This Week in Security News: Rules and Roles

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, The New York Times critiqued the S.E.C.’s new cybersecurity guidance, Github suffered a record-breaking DDoS attack, and Forbes outlined the...

Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online

By Waqas For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online...

Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released

Two separate proofs-of-concept PoC exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily. The first DDoS tool is written in C programming language and works with a pre-compiled lis...

1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — ​Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record

The bar has been raised. As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack. Network security and monitoring company Arbor Networks claims that its ATLAS global traffic a...

Week in security (February 26 – March 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained how to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining, we gave an encryption 101 lesson using ShiOne ransomware as a case study, and we offered an explanation about SQL injection. We also released a report on the state of malicious cryptomining from...

Massive DDoS attack washes over GitHub

There's been some huge DDoS distributed denial of service attacks over the years, but we've been…lucky?…enough to witness the latest raising of the stakes in the last couple of days. GitHub, an incredibly important code resource for major organisations around the world, fell victim to a colossal...

In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More

The largest distributed denial of service attack was recorded Wednesday and targeted GitHub. The DDoS attack measured 1.3 Tbps of sustained traffic for eight minutes. That shattered a previous DDoS publicly record attack associated with the Mirai botnet in Sept., 2016 that maxed-out at half the...

Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service DDoS attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attac...

Github hit by 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack; the largest ever

By Waqas The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Github hit by 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack; the largest ever...

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...

Your Cache is Exposed

On February 28, Akamai recorded a 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack against one of our customers. The attack was driven by a relatively new vector, memcached reflection. Possibly the largest publicly disclosed DDoS attack to date, the memcached attack was more than twice the size of the largest DDoS attacks...

Ruby: Integer Underflow @ ossl_cipher_pkcs5_keyivgen

Integer Underflow @ osslcipherpkcs5keyivgen file : ext/openssl/osslcipher.c affected parameter: iterations INFO Generates and sets the key/IV based on a password. call-seq: cipher.pkcs5keyivgenpass, salt = nil, iterations = 2048, digest = "MD5" - nil ANALYSIS iterint in osslcipherpkcs5keyivgen...