How companies can prepare for a heightened threat environment

With high levels of political unrest in various parts of the world, it’s no surprise we’re also in a period of increased cyber threats. In the past, a company’s name, political affiliations, or religious affiliations might push the risk needle higher. However, in the current environment any compa...

Imperva Launches New Data Center in Argentina

Imperva’s New Expansion We are happy to announce that Imperva has launched our new Buenos Aires data center. We’re thrilled to bring our leadership in cybersecurity plus enhanced performance and decreased latency to Argentina and the surrounding countries in the region. Our new data center is now...

How to prevent a rootkit attack

If you're ever at the receiving end of a rootkit attack, then you'll understand why they are considered one of the most dangerous cyberthreats today. Rootkits are a type of malware designed to stay undetected on your computer. Cybercriminals use rootkits to remotely access and control your machin...

Iran Cyber Threat Update

ARCHIVED STORY Iran Cyber Threat Update By Trellix · January 08, 2020 Recent political tensions in the Middle East region have led to significant speculation of increased cyber-related activities. McAfee is on a heightened state of alert to monitor the evolving threats and rapidly implement...

Automated Attacks Call for Automated Protection – 2020 Trend #3

In our blog series on security trends, we’ve been diving deeper into the five security predictions for 2020 made by our CTO Kunal Anand during his fireside chat with Imperva CMO David Gee. Watch it here. As I'll discuss in my upcoming blog on defense-in-depth and reducing risk, being “connected”...

HackerOne: profile-picture name parameter with large value lead to DoS for other users and programs on the platform

Summary: The issue persists as there are no text limitations for profile-picture name while uploading the profile-picture, these heavy text names can cause denial of service on different pages of hackerone. Description: I was checking the profile picture upload feature of hackerone and found out...

Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019

IoT Disasters 2019 Though more light was shed around insecure Internet of Things IoT devices in 2019 – consequently leading to more calls for regulation– connected devices themselves seemingly stayed just as insecure. From privacy concerns in smart home devices, to botnets evolving to launch...

Code injection

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

CVE-2019-19922

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

CVE-2019-19922

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps

There's hardly any business nowadays that don't use computers and connect to the Internet. Companies maintain an online presence through their official websites, blogs, and social media pages. People use online services to conduct day to day activities like banking. And of course, there are many...

Echobot IoT Botnet Casts a Wide Net with Raft of Exploit Additions

A variant of the Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet known as “Echobot” has added 13 more vulnerability exploits to its bag of infiltration tricks, according to researchers. These target a range of devices, including routers, firewalls, IP cameras, server management utilities, a programmable logi...

Chinese DDoS tool Great Cannon resurfaces to target Hong Kong protestors

By Waqas The DDoS tool, on the other hand, intercepts the web traffic from Chinese websites and injects malicious codes... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese DDoS tool Great Cannon resurfaces to target Hong Kong protestors...

Nord Security: xmlrpc.php FILE IS enable it will used for Bruteforce attack and Denial of Service(DoS)

Hi Team, The website https://www.nordvpn.com has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially used for such an attack against other victim hosts. Wordpress that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. URL:...

aSYNcrone - A SYN Flood DDoS Tool

aSYNcrone is a C language based, mulltifunction SYN Flood DDoS Weapon. Disable the destination system by sending a SYN packet intensively to the destination. aSYNcrone's POWER!!! USAGE git clone https://github.com/fatih4842/aSYNcrone.git cd aSYNcrone gcc aSYNcrone.c -o aSYNcrone -lpthread...

Akamai Prolexic - Mitigating Large Scale DDoS Attacks in 0 seconds

Large scale multi-vector DDOS attack thwarted in 0 Seconds A recent large attack levied against one of our global online gaming customers highlights the value of Akamai Prolexic's 0 Second SLA. As attacks ramp up more quickly than ever before, Akamai's SOCC demonstrates every day how having a...

5G security and privacy for smart cities

The 5G telecommunications revolution is imminent. It is the next generation of cellular network, making use of the existing 4G LTE in addition to opening up the millimeter wave band. 5G will be able to welcome more network-connected devices and increase speeds considerably for users. It will serv...

Linux Webmin Servers Under Attack by Roboto P2P Botnet

Vulnerable Linux Webmin servers are under active attack by a newly-discovered peer-to-peer P2P botnet, dubbed Roboto by researchers. The botnet is targeting a remote code-execution vulnerability CVE-2019-15107 in Webmin, a web-based system configuration tool for Linux servers. CVE-2019-15107 was...

DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual's sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father a...

A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...