SwitchBlade Denial of Service Tool

SwitchBlade is a DDoS tool that attacks Web servers with vast amounts of HTTP traffic using random parameters. A successful attack can cause a web server to terminate, leading to a denial-of-service condition...

Root Servers Were Not Targets of 2015 DDoS Attack

When the Internet’s root name servers are in the line of fire of a DDoS attack, people start to sweat, and with good reason since they are the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The most recent attacks against the root servers happened over a two-day period starting last Nov. 30,...

SadAttack Denial of Service Tool

SadAttack is a DDoS tool that attacks Web servers with vast amounts of HTTP traffic using random parameters. A successful attack can cause a web server to terminate, leading to a denial-of-service condition...

CVE-2016-1349

The Smart Install client implementation in Cisco IOS 12.2, 15.0, and 15.2 and IOS XE 3.2 through 3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service device reload via crafted image list parameters in a Smart Install packet, aka Bug ID CSCuv45410...

The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam. On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice DoJ charged seven Iranian hackers with a slew of computer hacking...

Iranians Indicted Over DDoS Campaign on Banks, Dam Hack

The U.S. government on Thursday indicted seven hackers affiliated with the Iranian government for attacks it called “a frightening new frontier in cybercrime.” Accusing the men of carrying out a series of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against 46 financial companies, the Department of...

Veris: Wordpress Pingback DDoS Attacks in domain: veris.in

Hi team, Wordpress blogs that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. The website veris.in has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially used for such an attack against other victim hosts. PoC: ==== In...

Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus HACKED! Customers Data Leaked

Staminus Communications – a California-based hosting and DDoS Distributed Denial of Service protection company – is recovering a massive data breach after hackers broke down into its servers and leaked personal and sensitive details of its customers. Though the company acknowledged that there was...

CmsEasy_5.5_UTF-8_20140118 demo.php 逻辑错误导致DDOS漏洞

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Linux Mint Website Hacked, ISOs Replaced with Backdoored Versions

Attackers managed to hijack the website of the Linux Mint operating system to push a backdoored ISO image of the software to users over the weekend. The developers behind the software, one of, if not the most popular Linux distribution, are unsure what the hackers are aiming to achieve by the mov...

Gratipay: limit number of images in statement

Hello The use of the images in the statements There appears to be no limit on how many can be inserted. On my own account "https://gratipay.com/34534534fsfs/" I placed 100 Gratipay users could unknowingly become part of a DDoS attack against another site. I would recommend limiting the number of...

Gratipay: UDP port 5060 (SIP) Open

SIPSession Initiation Protocol udp port 5060 is open in www.gratipay.com host . Bug id - CSCtj04672 Refer CVE-2011-3280 It may be the cause of DDOS and many other attack...

WinREST Remote Privilege Escalation

So a year back I was massively scanning internet. This case ISPs IPs blocks where you can find easily at RIPE for example. Then I found some interesting hosts where SMB were open and the ACL is totally open to root file system with the same netbios name. All file system is writable. I was able to...

Vigilante Hackers Aim to Hijack 200,000 Routers to Make Them More Secure

The same "Vigilante-style Hacker," who previously hacked more than 10,000 routers to make them more secure, has once again made headlines by compromising more than 70,000 home routers and apparently forcing their owners to make them secure against flaws and weak passwords. Just like the infamous...

Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

Creator of MegalodonHTTP DDoS Botnet Arrested

Last month, the Norway police arrested five hackers accused of running the MegalodonHTTP Remote Access Trojan RAT. The arrests came as part of the joint operation between Norway’s Kripos National Criminal Investigation Service and Europol, codenamed "OP Falling sTAR." According to the United Stat...

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector. Now once...

Chinese Hackers tried to Take Down Tibetan Social Networking Website

Tibet is an area in the Republic of China that has been the point of conflict for many years in China. While China believes that Tibet has been under Chinese rule for many centuries, Tibetans claim that they declared itself an independent republic in 1912. Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy...