New reforms will enhance the security and resilience of Australia’s critical infrastructure

Improving the security of critical infrastructure has become the focus of many governments around the world, including Australia. This is because a failure or disruption in one area of critical infrastructure can have flow on effects that affect a nation’s security, economy and sovereignty. In th...

AT&T Takes Steps to Mitigate Botnet Found Inside Its Network

AT&T is taking action to take down a botnet that had set up shop inside its network, infecting 5,700 VoIP servers that route traffic from enterprise customers to upstream mobile providers. Researchers from Netlab, a network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, first discovered what...

New EwDoor Botnet Targeting Unpatched AT&T Network Edge Devices

A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications formerly Edgewater Networks EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-year-old flaw in the network appliances. Chinese tech...

DNS Amplification Attacks Explained

Meaning of DNS Amplification Attacks A Domain Name System DNS enhancement assault is one out of various circulated refusal of administration DDoS assaults. Very much like different assaults of this nature, the objective of aggressors is to keep clients from utilizing a specific organization,...

What Avengers Movies Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity

Marvel has been entertaining us for the last 20 years. We have seen gods, super-soldiers, magicians, and other irradiated heroes fight baddies at galactic scales. The eternal fight of good versus evil. A little bit like in cybersecurity, goods guys fighting cybercriminals. If we choose to go with...

Holiday “to-do list” for cybersecurity professionals working in eCommerce

The period from mid-November to the end of the year is always particularly stressful for cybersecurity professionals in the eCommerce space. It seems like every hacker and cyber criminal on earth is trying even harder to steal customers’ data or stop digital business operations. And the reason it...

By the Numbers: The State of Security in eCommerce

The ongoing global pandemic has accelerated eCommerce growth and pushed more consumers online. More consumers mean a larger threat landscape and ensure that cybersecurity issues remain a significant, ongoing challenge for the retail industry. Based on a 12-month analysis by Imperva Research Labs,...

How to Choose the Right DDoS Protection Solution

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger, and economically motivated. Even after 25 years, they still pose a huge security risk for every business. This is in large part because DDoS attacks are relatively ea...

Abcbot — A New Evolving Wormable Botnet Malware Targeting Linux

Researchers from Qihoo 360's Netlab security team have released details of a new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation features to infect Linux systems and launch distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against targets. While the earliest...

Wake up and smell the Javascript – website supply chain puts online retail at risk

There are more than 1.8 billion websites online today, and almost 98% of them are powered by JavaScript. There’s a good reason for this: JavaScript’s flexibility and portability enable the rich online functionality we’ve all come to know and love. But what happens when that same functionality...

Navigating The Threat Landscape 2021 – From Ransomware to Botnets

Though we are recovering from the worst pandemic, cyber threats have shown no sign of downshifting, and cybercriminals are still not short of malicious and advanced ways to achieve their goals. The Global Threat Landscape Report indicates a drastic rise in sophisticated cyberattacks targeting...

Critical Citrix DDoS Bug Shuts Down Network, Cloud App Access

A critical security bug in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway could allow cyberattackers to crash entire corporate networks without needing to authenticate. The two affected Citrix products formerly the NetScaler ADC and Gateway are used for application-aware traffi...

Bandwidth.com reports multimillion dollar loss post DDoS attacks

By Waqas In September 2021, Bandwidth.com suffered a series of days-long DDoS attacks forcing its service to go offline in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bandwidth.com reports multimillion dollar loss post DDoS attacks...

With SLAs for DDoS Mitigation, the devil is in the details

When it comes to choosing the right DDoS protection there are many factors to consider including Network Capacity, Reliability, Service, Price and Time to Mitigation TTM. In a recent survey, we asked participants what factor they considered most critical when choosing a DDoS protection solution...

Anyone can DDOS vesting contract

Handle pauliax Vulnerability details Impact Vest function can be accessed by anyone. It accepts arbitrary beneficiary and pushes new vesting to the array of this beneficiary timelocks. As a malicious actor I can block any user by just invoking vest function with a tiny amount of vest token. The...

12 New Flaws Used in Ransomware Attacks in Q3

A dozen new vulnerabilities were used in ransomware attacks this quarter, bringing the total number of bugs associated with ransomware to 278. That’s a 4.5 percent increase over Q2, according to researchers. Five of the newbies can be used to achieve remote code execution RCE, while two can be us...

DDoS Attacks Shatter Records in Q3, Report Finds

The third quarter saw the sheer volume of distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks surge to several thousand hits per day, signaling a re-distribution of tactics by malicious actors away from cryptomining and toward the use of DDoS as a tool of intimidation, disinformation and straight-up...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2021

News overview Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder found a way to spoof the victims IP address over TCP. To date,...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

HelloKitty is launching a DDoS attack by exploiting known vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The FBI has issued a warning to private businesses about a new feature of the HelloKitty ransomware group aka FiveHands. The Hello Kitty/FiveHands actor UNC2447 employs the double extortion strategy to place undue pressure on...