Who Needs a Botnet when you have a 4 Gbps DDoS Cannon?

In recent months the DDoS world has shifted from complex small scale Botnet attacks to much larger network based DDoS attacks, perpetrated largely by hijacked web servers. How many of these hijacked servers are out there remains to be seen. However, Incapsula recently got a very good idea of just...

Self-proclaimed Alleged LulzSec leader arrested by Australian Federal Police

A self-proclaimed leader of hacking group Lulzsec has been arrested in Sydney, know by online name "Aush0k". Australian Federal Police confirmed they arrested the unnamed 24-year-old man from Point Clare yesterday. The police allege that the man compromised and defaced a government website,...

Who Needs a Botnet when you have a 4 Gbps DDoS Cannon?

In recent months the DDoS world has shifted from complex small scale Botnet attacks to much larger network based DDoS attacks, perpetrated largely by hijacked web servers. How many of these hijacked servers are out there remains to be seen. However, Incapsula recently got a very good idea of just...

Joomla! -- XXS and DDoS vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20130405 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in Voting plugin. 20130403 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering allows possibility of XSS exploit in some circumstances. 20130402 - Core - Information...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks. Apparently, someone is...

WordPress Sites Targeted by Mass Brute-force Botnet Attack

US-CERT is aware of an ongoing campaign targeting the content management software WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and web publishing platform based on PHP and MySQL. All hosting providers offering WordPress for web content management are potentially targets. Hackers reportedly are...

Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...

Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...

#OpIsrael - 7 APRIL Anonymous calls to army for massive attack against Israel

We are on the eve of the fateful day, April 7th, the collective of Anonymous announced a massive cyber attack against the state of Israel as part of the campaign started in the last months and named OpIsrael. The hacktivists are conducting a massive call to army to recruit new forces and inform a...

DDoS Attack, Database Breach Take Down Two Bitcoin Services

As with any asset of monetary value, once said asset reaches a noteworthy level, cybercriminals’ interest is going to pique. Such is the current situation with virtual currency Bitcoin, which hit a high of $142 yesterday and the value of all Bitcoins in circulation has soared to more than $1...

Using Customer Premise Equipment to Take Over the Internet

It’s the ultimate what-if scenario: What if an attacker could own all the customer premises equipment CPE doled out by ISPs such as routers and modems? Would it be trivial with available scanning equipment and other tools to find vulnerable gear, and then modify and re-upload the firmware to be...

World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet

The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and...

World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet

The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and...

Open DNS Resolvers Center Stage in Massive DDoS Attacks

For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, let’s just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading Internet service providers. Chances are, all but three or four will tell you “Thanks, but no thanks, ...

Spamhaus DDoS Attacks Triple Size of Attacks on US Banks

So you thought the 100 Gbps distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks were big? Ongoing attacks against Spamhaus have three times the fury and have affected unrelated online services as collateral damage. Attackers from Dutch webhost Cyberbunker are turning on a firehose of bad...

Theories Abound on Wiper Malware Attack Against South Korea

Disruptions to businesses in South Korea continue today after hackers used wiper malware to take a number of banks and television networks offline yesterday. A number of financial systems at a half-dozen banks and production systems inside South Korea’s major television networks remain down,...