UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: xmlrpc.php FILE IS enable which enables attacker to XSPA Brute-force and even Denial of Service(DOS), in https://████/xmlrpc.php

Summary: Hello team, I have found a security vulnerability inhttps://███████/xmlrpc.php which lets attacker to: 1: XSPA or PortScan 2: Bruteforce 3:DOS and much more Description: Impact Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions █████████ 1: Go to https://██████/xmlrpc.php to check if it is enabled o...

Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation

Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...

How Imperva Advanced Mesh Topology Keeps Canadian Data In-Country

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA is a Canadian federal law that sets out how organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. While PIPEDA does not prohibit the transfer of personal information outside of...

Cybersecurity best practices to implement highly secured devices

Almost three years ago, we published The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices, which introduced a new standard for IoT security and argued, based on an analysis of best-in-class devices, that seven properties must be present on every standalone device that connects to the internet in order ...

Alleged Hacker Behind Massive ‘Collection 1’ Data Dump Arrested

A hacker accused of selling hundreds of millions of stolen credentials from last year’s “Collection 1” data dump on the dark web has been arrested in the Ukraine. The Security Service of Ukraine SSU took into custody a threat actor known as “Sanix,” who they claim posted 773 million e-mail...

New DNS Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

Israeli cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new flaw impacting DNS protocol that can be exploited to launch amplified, large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks to takedown targeted websites. Called NXNSAttack, the flaw hinges on the DNS delegation mechanism to...

When Bandwidth Doesn’t Last

Introduction Imperva’s Cloud WAF networking team went through a major transition from an operation team to a development team during the SDN era. We saw new products emerging for our network infrastructure - moving from manual operation to automatic. But, while the change of mindset from being an...

Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique

Firms like Google and Cloudflare raced to prevent an amplification attack that threatened to take down large portions of the internet with just a few hundred devices...

Windows DNS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability involving packet amplification that affects Windows DNS servers. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS Server service to become nonresponsive. To exploit this vulnerability an attacker would need to have access to at...

Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips

Denial-of-service DoS attacks have spiked over the past year, while cyber-espionage campaigns have spiraled downwards. That’s according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR released Tuesday, which analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches across 16 industry...

KLA11783 Microsoft Advisory for Windows DNS servers

Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability involving packet amplification that affects Windows DNS servers. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS Server service to become nonresponsive. To exploit this vulnerability an attacker would need to have access to at...

Hoaxcalls Botnet Exploits Symantec Secure Web Gateways

Cyberattackers are targeting a post-authentication remote code-execution vulnerability in Symantec Secure Web Gateways as part of new Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnet attacks. Hoaxcalls first emerged in late March, as a variant of the Gafgyt/Bashlite family; it’s named after the domain used to host its...

Shifting Strategies

Formula One is always a sport I wanted to enjoy more than I actually did. I found the strategy always more compelling than the actual racing, which was usually just a procession. Of course, the crashes were always spectacular, not least because it would cause all the team strategies to be...

DDoS-for-hire service SuperiorStresser operator gets suspended sentence

By Deeba Ahmed SuperiorStresser DDoS-For-Hire service offered as low as £8 to carry out DDoS attacks... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS-for-hire service SuperiorStresser operator gets suspended sentence...

This Week in Security News: 7 Tips for Security Pros Patching in a Pandemic and Coinminer, DDoS Bot Attack Docker Daemon Ports

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about a malicious cryptocurrency miner and Distributed Denial of Service DDoS bot that targets open Docker daemon ports. Also, learn...

Kaiji IoT malware brute-forces Linux devices for DDoS attacks

By Sudais Asif A rare aspect of this IoT malware is that it was written from scratch. Usually, we have seen IoT malware coded in C or C++ yet Kaiji... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kaiji IoT malware brute-forces Linux devices for DDoS attacks...

Imperva Poised to Deliver its Leading Advanced Bot Protection and Network Security in India

With a presence in India since 2017, Imperva is continuing to provide a level of security excellence in the region. With Asia in general as both the target and source of most network DDoS attacks, and India topping the list for the first time in our latest DDoS threat landscape report, this is mo...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2020

News overview Since the beginning of 2020, due to the COVID-2019 pandemic, life has shifted almost entirely to the Web — people worldwide are now working, studying, shopping, and having fun online like never before. This is reflected in the goals of recent DDoS attacks, with the most targeted...

New Kaiji Botnet Targets IoT, Linux Devices

A new botnet has been infecting internet of things IoT devices and Linux-based servers, to then leverage them in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The malware, dubbed Kaiji, has been written from scratch, which researchers say is “rare in the IoT botnet landscape” today. Kaiji, which wa...