Open Redirect DDoS Tool: UFONet

Open Redirect DDoS Tool UFONet – is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using ‘Open Redirect’ vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. UFONet abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage ‘zombies’ and to conduct different attacks using; GET/POST, multithreading,...

Botnet Powered by 25,000 CCTV Devices Uncovered

A botnet comprised entirely of internet-enabled closed circuit TV devices used a barrage of HTTP requests to knock a small jewelry store offline for days. Researchers who came across the botnet recently said they weren’t surprised that IoT devices were being used to carry out a distributed denial...

IoT Botnet — 25,000 CCTV Cameras Hacked to launch DDoS Attack

The Internet of Things IoTs or Internet-connected devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are threats to them. Due to the insecure implementation, these Internet-connected embedded devices, including Smart TVs, Refrigerators, Microwaves, Set-top boxes, Security Cameras and printers, are...

Mobile Triada and Horde Variants Bypass Android Security

Two mobile variants of Triada and Horde malware have been spotted in the wild by Check Point Software Technologies researchers who warn the latest samples have adopted dangerous new techniques including the ability to evade Google’s security on some OS versions. The Android Trojan called Triada,...

Root Servers Were Not Targets of 2015 DDoS Attack

When the Internet’s root name servers are in the line of fire of a DDoS attack, people start to sweat, and with good reason since they are the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The most recent attacks against the root servers happened over a two-day period starting last Nov. 30,...

Linux Mint Website Hacked, ISOs Replaced with Backdoored Versions

Attackers managed to hijack the website of the Linux Mint operating system to push a backdoored ISO image of the software to users over the weekend. The developers behind the software, one of, if not the most popular Linux distribution, are unsure what the hackers are aiming to achieve by the mov...

Gratipay: limit number of images in statement

Hello The use of the images in the statements There appears to be no limit on how many can be inserted. On my own account "https://gratipay.com/34534534fsfs/" I placed 100 Gratipay users could unknowingly become part of a DDoS attack against another site. I would recommend limiting the number of...

Creator of MegalodonHTTP DDoS Botnet Arrested

Last month, the Norway police arrested five hackers accused of running the MegalodonHTTP Remote Access Trojan RAT. The arrests came as part of the joint operation between Norway’s Kripos National Criminal Investigation Service and Europol, codenamed "OP Falling sTAR." According to the United Stat...

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

Chinese Hackers tried to Take Down Tibetan Social Networking Website

Tibet is an area in the Republic of China that has been the point of conflict for many years in China. While China believes that Tibet has been under Chinese rule for many centuries, Tibetans claim that they declared itself an independent republic in 1912. Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

ProtonMail Back Online Following Six Day DDoS Attack

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is back online today following a crippling six-day attack that saw the company’s ISPs and data centers under siege. Operators behind the service said the site may not always be reachable, as its servers are still under heavy strain and mitigating attack, and tha...

TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service DDoS attacks of over 150 gigabits per second Gbps. The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20...

JavaScript-Based DDoS Peaks at 275,000 Requests Per Second

Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly. Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, th...

BitTorrent Fixes Reflective DDoS Attack Security Flaw

Two weeks ago, we reported how a serious flaw in the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent file sharing protocols could be exploited to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack, allowing lone hackers with limited resources to take down large websites. Good news is that the...

GitHub Again Hit by DDoS Cyberattack

Github – the popular code sharing website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – again became a victim of a distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. The attack came just a few months after the popular code repository website GitHub suffered a massive DDo...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Code repository Github mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack, restoring services this morning around 9 a.m. Eastern time. According to a Github status log, connectivity problems began today around 5:30 a.m. with Github declaring it was under a DDoS attack an hour later. A request for...

JVN#17964918: Multiple I-O DATA LAN routers vulnerable in UPnP functionality

A wired LAN router NP-BBRS and a wireless LAN router WN-G54/R2 provided by I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. contain a vulnerability in the UPnP functionality. Impact The device may be used in a DDoS attack, as a SSDP reflector. Solution For NP-BBRS: Do not use NP-BBRS The developer has stated that the suppo...