Logic Flaw Vulnerability in Mingguo APT Attack (Cyber Warfare) Warning Platform

Hangzhou ACE Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a company that has been focusing on the research, development, production and sales of products in the field of network information security, such as Fortress, Remote Monitoring, Cloud Saas Service, Cloud WAF, Industrial Control, Online Remote Offi...

Akamai Provides Prolexic DDoS Service Impact Update (Status: Resolved)

Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services Routed 3.0 starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service. Many of the...

Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Service Triggers Outages

UPDATE Major financial institutions, airlines and the Hong Kong stock exchange were knocked offline by a backfiring distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation service Thursday. The hour-long outage, which was triggered at approximately 1 a.m. EST Thursday, is tied to Akamai Technology’s...

Akamai Provides Prolexic DDoS Service Impact Update (Status: Resolved)

Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services Routed 3.0 starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service...

Imperva delivers mile high performance and protection with new PoPs in Denver and Dublin

We are very pleased to announce that we are extending our global coverage with the addition of two new PoPs points of presence in Denver in the US and Dublin, Ireland. The new PoPs will enhance Imperva’s existing network to provide enhanced protection against distributed denial of service DDoS...

Avaddon Ransomware Gang Evaporates Amid Global Crackdowns

Ransomware group Avaddon has decided to shutter its criminal enterprise after landing in the crosshairs of law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Australia. Avaddon, a prolific ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, released its decryption keys to BleepingComputer — 2,934 in total — with each k...

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Zhongxin Golden Shield Firewall System

Golden Shield Firewall is a series of firewall products of Zhongxin Golden Shield specialized in anti-DDoS attack and anti-CC attack. There exists an arbitrary file read vulnerability in the firewall system, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

Another one bites the dust: Avaddon ransomware group shuts down operation

Are you seeing some pattern here? In what could be a called "shocking news" on Friday, BleepingComputer revealed that the gang behind the Avaddon ransomware shut down its operations after releasing more than 2,000 decryption keys to the technology news site. BleepingComputer claimed they received...

‘Fancy Lazarus’ Cyberattackers Ramp up Ransom DDoSes

A distributed denial-of-service DDoS extortion group has blazed back on the cybercrime scene, this time under the name of “Fancy Lazarus.” It’s been launching a series of new attacks that may or may not have any teeth, researchers said. The new name is a tongue-in-cheek combination of the...

Command Execution Vulnerability in the Control System of Next-Generation Firewall of Shenzhen Zhongke NetWizard Technology Co. Ltd (CNVD-2021-44001)

ZKNETWORTH's next-generation firewall control system products are based on L2-7 layer access application control, integrating firewall, IPS intrusion detection, DDoS/DOS protection, AV virus protection; realizing comprehensive security protection for intranet, and providing security firewall...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:0255-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Hacker selling DDOS-Guard database, source code, pirate sites data

By Waqas It is time for anti-piracy groups to rejoice as the database of DDoS-Guard is reportedly on sale on a hacking forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker selling DDOS-Guard database, source code, pirate sites data...

The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)

Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full. Starting last week and rapidly accelerating, we began seeing in our data and hearing firsthand from organizations about a new wave of extortion activity -- new Bitcoin...

The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)

Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full...

Showmax: xmlrpc.php is publicly available at https://stories.showmax.com/xmlrpc.php

Summary: Greetings @Showmax, i found an xmlrpc.php file on https://stories.showmax.com, it's publicly available and it accepts POST requests. Description: your site is a WordPress site based, xmlrpc.php is a file that is intended to make API calls between hosts, if it's enabled on a WordPress sit...

What Is The High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC)❓ Defend methods

High Orbit Ion Cannon HOIC is a platform that offers open-source network stress testing features. Used by people with the intend of attacking a server. With the application, you’ll be able to carry out denial of service DoS and distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The primary purpose of...

What Is Slowloris DDoS Attack❓ Mitigation methods

Slowloris is a DDoS attack software created by Robert “RSnake” Hansen. The software allows a single computer to take on a web server. The attack’s simple but elegant nature means it does not require much bandwidth to carry out its attack on the server of the target webserver with minimal or no si...

openSUSE Security Update : cacti / cacti-spine (openSUSE-2021-755)

This update for cacti, cacti-spine fixes the following issues : cacti-spine was updated to 1.2.17 : - Avoid triggering DDos detection in firewalls on large systems - Use mysql reconnect option properly - Fix possible creashes in various operations - Fix remote data collectors pushing too much dat...

Security update for cacti, cacti-spine (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for cacti, cacti-spine Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0787-1 Rating: important References: 1180804 Cross-References: CVE-2020-35701 CVSS scores: CVE-2020-35701 NVD : 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected Products: openSUSE Backports...

What Is The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)❓ Defend methods

For a tool that can cause serious damage to a website, LOIC is relatively simple. What it does basically is to send multiple requests and flood a targeted IP with TCP or UDP packets or HTTP requests. One person cannot single handedly use LOIC to cause DoS, so a number of users have to come togeth...