Cyber Threats in Costume: When Attacks Hide Behind a Mask

Introduction As Halloween approaches, the idea of costumes and disguises takes center stage, but the spirit of deception isn’t limited to one night. In the digital world, cyberattacks can also wear masks, concealing their true intentions to slip past defenses. Just as a costume can obscure who’s...

K000148279: CUPS vulnerability CVE-2024-47850

Security Advisory Description CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. The request is meant to probe the new printer bu...

SUSE SLES12: cups-filters / cups-filters-cups-browsed / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3756-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:3756-1 advisory. - CVE-2024-47850: Fixed cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets bsc1231294 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

SUSE-SU-2024:3756-1 Security update for cups-filters

This update for cups-filters fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-47850: Fixed cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets bsc1231294...

CVE-2024-47678

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel related to the order of rate limits for ICMP messages. The sequence in which rate limiters are applied potentially allows a side-channel attack, resulting in information disclosure. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently...

Internet Archive attackers email support users: “Your data is now in the hands of some random guy”

Those who hacked the Internet Archive haven't gone away. Users of the Internet Archive who have submitted helpdesk tickets are reporting replies to the tickets from the hackers themselves. Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback Machine, is a digital library that allows users to look at...

Seven Cybersecurity Tips to Protect Your Retail Business This Holiday Season

It’s no secret that the holiday season is the busiest time for online retailers, with sales starting as early as October and stretching until late December. According to the NRF, census data suggests that 2023 holiday sales experienced a 3.8% growth, reaching a record $964.4 billion about $3,000...

CVE-2024-47678

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: icmp: change the order of rate limits ICMP messages are ratelimited : After the blamed commits, the two rate limiters are applied in this order: 1 host wide ratelimit icmpglobalallow 2 Per destination ratelimit inetpeer based In...

AZL-50716 CVE-2024-47678 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: icmp: change the order of rate limits ICMP messages are ratelimited : After the blamed commits, the two rate limiters are applied in this order: 1 host wide ratelimit icmpglobalallow 2 Per destination ratelimit inetpeer based In...

CVE-2024-47678 icmp: change the order of rate limits

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: icmp: change the order of rate limits ICMP messages are ratelimited : After the blamed commits, the two rate limiters are applied in this order: 1 host wide ratelimit icmpglobalallow 2 Per destination ratelimit inetpeer based In...

Mirai-Inspired Gorilla Botnet Hits 0.3 Million Targets Across 100 Countries

A new Gorilla Botnet has launched massive DDoS attacks, targeting over 100 countries, according to cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS.…...

Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan a.k.a. AnonSudan, a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals,...

Why Modern Layer 7 DDoS Protections Are Crucial for Web Security in 2024

A new Akamai white paper explains why you need to prioritize modern Layer 7 DDoS protection — and details how you can guide your security efforts...

U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated b...

US Charges Duo Behind Anonymous Sudan for Over 35,000 DDoS Attacks

The US DoJ indicts two Sudanese nationals allegedly behind Anonymous Sudan for over 35,000 DDoS attacks targeting critical…...

Simplify Security and Enhance WAAP with Detection and Control in the AI Era

Simplify operations without sacrificing control. Read how Akamai delivers a robust defense with innovations like Behavioral DDoS Engine and AI Assistant...

THN Cybersecurity Recap: Top Threats, Tools and Trends (Oct 7 - Oct 13)

Hey there, it's your weekly dose of "what the heck is going on in cybersecurity land " – and trust me, you NEED to be in the loop this time. We've got everything from zero-day exploits and AI gone rogue to the FBI playing crypto kingpin – it's full of stuff they don't 🤫 want you to know. So let's...

Medium: cups-filters

Issue Overview: CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and libcupsfilters contains the code of the filters of the former cups-filters package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. The cfGetPrinterAttributes5 function ...

CVE-2024-47489

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine pfe of the Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX Series devices allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker sending specific transit protocol traffic to cause a partial Denial of Service DoS to...

CVE-2024-47489

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine pfe of the Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX Series devices allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker sending specific transit protocol traffic to cause a partial Denial of Service DoS to...