Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second Tbps and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off "over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout...

PT-2024-6501

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cups versions prior to 2.4.11-alt1 cups-browsed versions prior to 2.0.1-0ubuntu2.1 cups-filters affected versions not specified Description The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS and related components, including cups-browsed and cups-filters, a...

ROS-20240918-06

Vulnerability of DNS-server Unbound is related to the possibility of forming a pulse stream of a large number of requests to the server using responses from DNS resolvers. DNS server Unbound vulnerability is related to the possibility of generating a pulse flow of a large number of requests to th...

Akamai Prevents DDoS Attack on Major U.S. Customer

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Akamai Blocked 419 TB of Malicious Traffic in a 24-Hour DDoS Attack

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack...

New Panamorfi DDoS Attack Exploits Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks

"Panamorfi," a new DDoS attack, exploits Discord, Minecraft, and Jupyter Notebooks. Cybersecurity researchers warn of this threat targeting…...

17-Year-Old Linked to Scattered Spider Cybercrime Syndicate Arrested in U.K.

Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. The arrest was made "in connection with a global cyber online crime group which has been targeting large organizations with...

New Mirai Botnet Variants Observed: How to Identify a Mirai-Style DDoS Attack

The Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet, notorious for targeting connected household devices like cameras, alarm systems, and personal routers, continues evolving and poses significant cybersecurity threats. It has a history of executing massive DDoS attacks, including a major incident that...

OVHcloud Hit with Record 840 Million PPS DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second Mpps. This is just above the previous record of 809 million Mpps reported by Akamai as targeting a large...

PT-2024-5045

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ASUS router models affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an authentication bypass vulnerability in certain ASUS router models, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to log in to the device. This vulnerabilit...

Mitel MiCollab <= 9.4 SP1 Information Disclosure and DoS (22-0001)

According to its version number, the Mitel MiCollab software is 9.4 SP1 9.4.107 or prior. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability: - A vulnerability has been identified in MiCollab and MiVoice Business Express that may allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to...

Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique

The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "CatDDoS-related gangs' samples...

RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.39 (RHSA-2023:5679)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5679 advisory. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or...

RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.5 (collectd-libpod-stats, etcd) (RHSA-2023:5965)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5965 advisory. A highly-available key value store for shared configuration Security Fixes: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause...

RHEL 8 : jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins (RHSA-2024:0777)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0777 advisory. Jenkins is a continuous integration server that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cro...

RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1.1 (collectd-libpod-stats) (RHSA-2023:5970)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5970 advisory. A highly-available key value store for shared configuration Shared library for infrawatch golang components Security Fixes: golang: net/http...

RHEL 8 / 9 : skupper-cli and skupper-router (RHSA-2023:6165)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6165 advisory. Security Fixes: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work CVE-2023-44487 CVE-2023-39325 HTTP/2: Multip...

RHEL 8 : openshift-pipelines-client (RHSA-2023:6781)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6781 advisory. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Client, tkn for the 1.11.2 release, provides a CLI tool to interact with the Pipelines and Triggers components...

RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.13.5 Async Security Update (Important) (RHSA-2023:5931)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5931 advisory. Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to...