Mirai Bots More Than Double Since Source Code Release

The Mirai malware continues to recruit vulnerable IoT devices into botnets at a record pace, one that’s only gone up since the source code for Mirai was made public two weeks ago. Level 3 Communications, a telecommunications company and Internet service provider in Colorado, has identified the...

Ian Dunn: No CAPTCHA ia exist in pages

No CAPTCHA is exist in the "Wordpress-backup-options" and "contact" pages. Due to the fact that the webpage has no CAPTCHA mechanism any attacker can perform DOS/DDOS attack and perform Daniel of Service attack to the server. Links: Wordpress-backup-options page:...

Sierra Wireless Warns Cellular Data Gear Targeted by Mirai Malware

Sierra Wireless is warning customers to change default factory credentials on its AireLink gatway communications gear or risk being infected by Mirai malware. Mirai malware scans the Internet for IoT gear such as DVRs and IP-enabled cameras and other devices that are protected by default or...

12-Year-Old SSH Bug Exposes More than 2 Million IoT Devices

Are your internet-connected devices spying on you? Perhaps. We already know that the Internet of Thing IoT devices are so badly insecure that hackers are adding them to their botnet network for launching Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against target services. But, these connected...

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets

The IoT botnet behind some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic, generating more than one million requests per second in some cases, in order to bring down web applications. The attacks were recorded prior to the release of the source code fuelin...

When DVRs Attack: Post IoT Attack Analysis

Researchers examining the aftermath of last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com and French hosting giant OVH have identified key flaws that contributed significantly in those attacks and have unearthed new details on how the assaults were carried out...

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...

Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

Source Code for IoT botnet responsible for World's largest DDoS Attack released Online

With rapidly growing Internet of Thing IoT devices, they have become a much more attractive target for cybercriminals. Just recently we saw a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against the France-based hosting provider OVH that reached over one Terabit per second 1 Tbps,...

Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router

If you own a D-Link wireless router, especially DWR-932 B LTE router, you should get rid of it, rather than wait for a firmware upgrade that never lands soon. D-Link DWR-932B LTE router is allegedly vulnerable to over 20 issues, including backdoor accounts, default credentials, leaky credentials,...

World's largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices

Do you know — Your Smart Devices may have inadvertently participated in a record-breaking largest cyber attack that Internet has just witnessed. If you own a smart device like Internet-connected televisions, cars, refrigerators or thermostats, you might already be part of a botnet of millions of...

On Schneier's DDoS Article, OS X Malware Detection, and Patches

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember162016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Bruce Schneier on Probing Attacks Testing Core Internet Infrastructure

Bruce Schneier talks to Mike Mimoso about information he was given regarding an increase in DDoS and probing attacks targeting companies running core internet infrastructure in an attempt to test their defenses. For some additional context about this conversation, read an article by Schneier on...

Here's How Hackers Can Disrupt '911' Emergency System and Put Your Life at Risk

What would it take for hackers to significantly disrupt the US' 911 emergency call system? It only takes 6,000 Smartphones. Yes, you heard it right! According to new research published last week, a malicious attacker can leverage a botnet of infected smartphone devices located throughout the...

FreeBSD : wolfssl -- DDoS amplification in DTLS (3d1372e1-7822-4fd8-b56e-5ee832afbd96)

Sebastian Ramacher identified an error in wolfSSL's implementation of the server side of the DTLS handshake, which could be abused for DDoS amplification or a DoS on the DTLS server itself. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Open Redirect DDoS Tool: UFONet

Open Redirect DDoS Tool UFONet – is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using ‘Open Redirect’ vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. UFONet abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage ‘zombies’ and to conduct different attacks using; GET/POST, multithreading,...

High Performance DoS Analyzer: FastNetMon

High Performance DoS Analyzer FastNetMon – A high performance DoS/DDoS load analyzer built on top of multiple packet capture engines NetFlow, IPFIX, sFLOW, SnabbSwitch, netmap, PFRING, PCAP. What can we do? We can detect hosts in our networks sending or receiving large volumes of...

BASHLITE Family Of Malware Infects 1 Million IoT Devices

More than one million consumer web-connected video cameras and DVRs are compromised by bot herders who use the devices for DDoS attacks, researchers say. According to Level 3 Threat Research Labs, a small malware family that goes by the names Lizkebab, BASHLITE, Torlus and Gafgyt is behind a web ...

Unsecured DNSSEC Easily Weaponized, Researchers Warn

DNSSEC is not invincible. Researchers this week described how a DNSSEC-based flood attack could easily knock a website offline and allow for the insertion of malware or exfiltration of sensitive data. The intent of Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, is to bolster DNS through a...

Telegram Bot API Cross Site Request Forgery / Denial Of Service

Exploit Title : Telegram Bot API CSRF Vulnerability and use it as a ddoser Exploit Author : 4L1R3Z4 Date : 2016/08/15 Google Dork : No Home Page : https://core.telegram.org/bots/api Category : Web Application Discovered by : 4L1R3Z4 ============================== Description :...