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...

Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official (Updated)

By Waqas Bitcoin is one of those cryptocurrencies whose value has rapidly This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official Updated...

November 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thanksgiving Week” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 21, 2017 - Headlines National Cyber Security Centre boss: For the love...

Six Ways to Secure APIs

API usage in application development has become the trend of the year. Adoption of micro-services and server-less architectures have only accelerated this trend. Based on conversations with analysts and customers, we expect APIs to become the majority of web application front ends in next couple ...

Advanced Man In The Middle Framework: Xerosploit

Xerosploit is a penetration testing toolkit whose goal is to perform man in the middle attacks for penetration testing purposes. It brings various modules together that will help you perform very efficient attacks. You can also use it to perform denial of service attacks and port scanning. Powere...

The WireX Botnet warning Bulletin-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

2017 8 May 17, named WireX BotNet the botnet by masquerading ordinary Android applications the way a large number of infected Android devices and launched a large-scaleDDoSattack, this caused a portion of the CDN provider's note, and thereafter from Akamai, Cloudflare, Dragon Age, Google, Oracle...

Blizzard Entertainment hit by massive DDoS attack

By Agan Uzunovic The web servers of Blizzard Entertainment have suffered a series of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Blizzard Entertainment hit by massive DDoS attack...

Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack

Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack has since subsided, according to Blizzard, but users are still grousing on Twitter over lingering...

Someone DDoSed Ukraine’ national postal service for 48 hours

By Uzair Amir Ukrposhta, the national postal service of Ukraine came under a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone DDoSed Ukraine national postal service for 48 hours...

Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom

A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court on Friday that he was behind an attack last year that knocked close to 1 million customers of German ISP Deutsche Telekom offline. The suspect is a 29-year old British man who is only identified as “Daniel K.” He was arrested Feb...

Wreckuests - Tool to run DDoS atacks with HTTP-flood

Wreckuests is a script, which allows you to run DDoS attacks with HTTP-floodGET/POST. It's written in pure Python and uses proxy-servers as "bots". OF COURSE, this script is not universal and you can't just drop Pentagon/NSA/whatever website with one mouse click. Each attack is unique, and for ea...

Glaring Vulnerabilities Make Many Commercial Drones 'Insecure by Design'

Drones, many readily available on ecommerce shops such as Amazon, are plagued by vulnerabilities that could give attackers full root access to the device, read or delete files, or crash the device. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT published a warning about one model, th...

New Mirai Variant Roars into Action With 54 Hour DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai malware pummeled a U.S. college last month with a marathon 54-hour long attack. Researchers say this latest Mirai variant is a more potent version of the notorious Mirai malware that made headlines in October, targeting DNS provider Dyn and the Krebs on Security website. Th...