Apple Says OS X Safe By Default Against Bash Vulnerability

Apple is trying to soothe users who are anxious about Mac OS X’s exposure to the Bash vulnerability. The company said in a statement to Threatpost that most Apple users are not at risk, and reports have it that Apple is preparing to release a patch. “With OS X, systems are safe by default and not...

Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots

A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...

High-Volume, High-Rate DDoS Attacks Persist

As expected, the numbers back up the continued proliferation of both high-volume and high-rate distributed denial of service attacks – like the ones executed via NTP amplification – over the last few months. NSFOCUS, a security firm that measures DDoS traffic, released its Mid-Year Threat Report...

UFONet - DDoS attacks via Web Abuse (XSS/CSRF)

UFONet - is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using 'Open Redirect' vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: - CWE-601:Open Redirect - OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Main features: --version show program's version number and exit -v,...

FBHT v3.0 - Facebook Hacking Tool (Like flood, Note DDoS attack, FBFriendlyLogout, more...)

FBHTFacebook Hacking Tool is an open-source tool written in Python that exploits multiple vulnerabilities on the Facebook platform The tool provides: 1 Create accounts 2 Delete all accounts for a given user 3 Send friendship requests Test Accounts 4 Accept friendship requests Test Accounts 5...

Google Public DNS Server Spoofed for SNMP based DDoS Attack

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex, and, according to security experts, the next DDoS vector to be concerned about is SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol amplification attacks. Yesterday afternoon, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported...

SNMP DDoS Attack Spoofs Google DNS Server

Update: The SANS Internet Storm Center this afternoon reported SNMP scans spoofed from Google’s public recursive DNS server seeking to overwhelm vulnerable routers and other devices that support the protocol with DDoS traffic. “The traffic is spoofed, and claims to come from Google’s DNS server...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...

Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack

It’s been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by...

Drupal /xmlrpc.php 拒绝服务漏洞 poc

早在2012 年 12 月 17 日一些采用 PHP 的知名博客程序 WordPress被曝光存在严重的漏洞，该漏洞覆盖WordPress 全部已发布的版本（包括WordPress 3.8.1）。该漏洞的 WordPress 扫描工具也在很多论坛和网站发布出来。工具可以利用 WordPress 漏洞来进行扫描，也可以发起DDoS 攻击。经过测试，漏洞影响存在 xmlrpc.php 文件的全部版本。 Pingback 是三种类型的反向链接中的一种，当有人链接或者盗用作者文章时来通知作者的一种方法。可以让作者了解和跟踪文章被链接或被转载的情况。一些全球最受欢迎的 blog 系统比如...

Anonymous Group Takes Down Mossad's Website Over Gaza Conflict

The hacktivist group Anonymous has reportedly taken down the official website of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad against Israel’s military incursion in Gaza, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. The government of Israel has yet to comment on the Mossad hack attack. The...

QuasiBot - Webshell Manager aka HTTP Botnet

QuasiBot is a complex webshell manager written in PHP, which operate on web-based backdoors implemented by user himself. Using prepared php backdoors, quasiBot will work as C&C trying to communicate with each backdoor. Tool goes beyond average web-shell managers, since it delivers useful function...

Phony Googlebots Becoming a Real DDoS Attack Tool

Even an enterprise with the harshest, strictest blocking rules in place is likely to leave the door ajar for Google’s search bot software known as a Googlebot. Googlebots crawl websites collecting data along the way in order to build a searchable index that assures a site will be listed and ranke...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Continue to Spike

Although the average size of a given DDoS attack is going down, the number of attacks at the upper end of the scale is increasing, with researchers at Arbor Networks reporting more than 100 attacks of 100 Gbps in the first half of this year. In order for a DDoS attack to be effective, bad guys us...

17-year-old Arrested for Massive DDoS Attack on Norway’s Financial Sector

The Norwegian police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old for a massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack earlier this week that disabled the websites of major financial institutions and other businesses in the country. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is designed to sabotage,...

SNMP 'GETBULK' Reflection DDoS

The remote SNMP daemon is responding with a large amount of data to a 'GETBULK' request with a larger than normal value for 'max-repetitions'. A remote attacker can use this SNMP server to conduct a reflected distributed denial of service attack on an arbitrary remote host. TRUSTED...

Low: chrony

Issue Overview: It was reported that the cmdmon protocol implemented in chrony was found to be vulnerable to DDoS attacks using traffic amplification. By default, commands are allowed only from localhost, but it's possible to configure chronyd to allow commands from any address. This could allow ...

mojoportal - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. ''' | / |/ \ /\ | | | | \ | \ / | | | | / \ | | | | | | | |/| | | | |/ /\ | | | | | | | | || / \ || | | | || ||// \/|/ ''' Abysssec Inc Public Advisory Title : mojoportal Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities Affected Version : mojoPortal 2-3-4-3 Discovery :...

PsyBNC 2.3 Oversized Passwords Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570/info PsyBNC is a freely available, open source IRC bouncing server. It is available for the UNIX and Linux operating systems. Under some circumstances, it is possible for a remote user to crash a vulnerable server...