Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS...

Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

If you’re one of the 50% of small and medium-sized businesses SMBs that use Mac .devices today, chances are your IT and security teams have a ton of Mac endpoints to monitor. Securing that many endpoints can get really complex, really fast, especially when you consider that the common wisdom that...

Valinor error messages leading to potential data exfiltration before v0.12.0

php registerConstructorMoney::class, 'fromString' -mapper; try vardump$mapper-mapFoo::class, 'a' = 'HAHA', 'b' = '100 EUR', 'c' = 'USD 100' ; catch MappingError $e $messages = new NodeTraverserfunction Node $node foreach $node-messages as $message vardump '$message', $message-path, $message-body ...

GHSA-5PGM-3J3G-2RC7 Valinor error messages leading to potential data exfiltration before v0.12.0

php registerConstructorMoney::class, 'fromString' -mapper; try vardump$mapper-mapFoo::class, 'a' = 'HAHA', 'b' = '100 EUR', 'c' = 'USD 100' ; catch MappingError $e $messages = new NodeTraverserfunction Node $node foreach $node-messages as $message vardump '$message', $message-path, $message-body ...

CVE-2014-3648

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached...

Design/Logic Flaw

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached...

CVE-2014-3648

The CVE-2014-3648 issue concerns the simplepush server, where notifications are pushed for each registered installation using a deviceToken supplied by the user. The vulnerability arises because a bogus application can register with bad deviceTokens or point to arbitrary HTTP endpoints. This can ...

CVE-2014-3648

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached...

Pro-Russia Killnet Group Hit Top Lithuanian websites with Massive DDoS Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed The attack seems to be a retaliatory effort from Killnet following the diplomatic tensions between the two countries.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pro-Russia Killnet Group Hit Top Lithuanian websites with Massive DDoS Attacks...

‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade

Russia-linked cyber collective Killnet has claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks Monday on the Lithuanian government and other entities in the Baltic country over closure of transit routes within the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to researchers. The threat group warns that it will...

A week in security (June 20 – June 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: LinkedIn scams are a "significant threat", warns FBI DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed Internet Safety Month: 7 tips for staying safe online while on vacation Client-side Magecart attacks still around, but more covert Security vulnerabilities: 5 times that...

The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks

Explore how DDoS attacks are practically unrecognizable from those of the past few years thanks to constant innovation in the threat landscape...

President Putin’s Economic Forum Speech Delayed due to DDoS Attack

By Deeba Ahmed The Russian Economic Forum was taking place in St. Petersburg when its proceedings were stalled due to a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: President Putin’s Economic Forum Speech Delayed due to DDoS Attack...

DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed

Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that provide powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against internet users and websites. This sentencing resulted in the seizure of his websites, making the...

Authorities Shut Down Russian RSOCKS Botnet That Hacked Millions of Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday disclosed that it took down the infrastructure associated with a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS in collaboration with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The botnet, operated by a sophisticated cybercrime organization, ...

Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack

By Deeba Ahmed The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack...

Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

Last week, Cloudflare blocked the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second rps. The previous record for a HTTPS DDoS attack was 15.3 million rps. The attack targeted an unnamed Cloudflare customer and originated mostly from Cloud Service Provider...

Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second

Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second RPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed...

Admin of DDoS-For-Hire Service “DownThem” Gets 2 Years Prison Sentence

By Waqas Matthew Gatrel was arrested after an extensive crackdown by the FBI and other agencies against 15 booter service… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Admin of DDoS-For-Hire Service "DownThem" Gets 2 Years Prison Sentence...

“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user...