Does a VPN Protect You from Hackers?

A virtual private network VPN is the perfect solution for a lot of issues you might experience online- accessing blocked sites, hiding your browsing activity, getting rid of internet throttling, finding better deals, and much more. But does a VPN protect you from hackers? Is your private...

Dogged Persistence—The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...

Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks

Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service DoS amplification attacks against any target, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to date. Detailed by a...

MTN Group: There is no rate limit for SME REGISTRATION PORTAL

Summary: The speed limit for the https://mtngbissau.com/registo/ endpoint has not been implemented. Steps To Reproduce: 1. Go to the https://mtngbissau.com/registo/ 2. fill out the Registration form 3. Send request to Intruder. 4. Set your payloads and start attack. 5. There is no rate-limit...

Check your passwords! Synology NAS devices under attack from StealthWorker

Synology PSIRT Product Security Incident Response Team has put out a warning that it has recently seen and received reports about an increase in brute-force attacks against Synology devices. PSIRT suspects the botnet commonly known as StealthWorker is responsible for this increase in activity...

Hackers Exploiting New Auth Bypass Bug Affecting Millions of Arcadyan Routers

Unidentified threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability to hijack home routers as part of an effort to co-opt them to a Mirai-variant botnet used for carrying out DDoS attacks, merely two days after its public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2021-20090 CVSS...

Home routers are being hijacked using vulnerability disclosed just 2 days ago

The early bird catches the worm. Unless the worm was early enough to hide. On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that was discovered by Tenable was made public. Only two days later, on August 5, Juniper Threat Labs identified some attack patterns that attempted to exploit this vulnerability in the...

5 reasons why depending on your ISP for DDoS protection is a bad idea

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Once thought of as prankish annoyance, DDoS attacks today are often a tool for cybercriminals to...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild...

What is SYN Spoofing or TCP Reset Attack❓

Syn Spoofing or TCP Reset Attack is a type of attack in which attackers send forged TCP RST Reset packets to the host. This is the most common attack on the Internet which is causing a lot of problems. These attacks are mainly performed to shut down the websites which are not working with them...

G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic

G2A.COM is the world's largest marketplace for video games, with thousands of sellers, 24 million customers, and a million transactions a month. It's the first stop for gamers and geeks who are looking for low-priced game keys, activation codes, electronics, merchandise, and more. G2A has grown...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : nextcloud (openSUSE-SU-2021:1068-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1068-1 advisory. - A missing input validation in Nextcloud Server before 20.0.2, 19.0.5, 18.0.11 allows users to store unlimited data in workflow rules...

Researchers Warn of Linux Cryptojacking Attackers Operating from Romania

A threat group likely based in Romania and active since at least 2020 has been behind an active cryptojacking campaign targeting Linux-based machines with a previously undocumented SSH brute-forcer written in Golang. Dubbed "Diicot brute," the password cracking tool is alleged to be distributed v...

CVE-2021-0280

Due to an Improper Initialization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on PTX platforms and QFX10K Series with Paradise PE chipset-based line cards, ddos-protection configuration changes made from the CLI will not take effect as expected beyond the default DDoS Distributed Denial of Service...

CVE-2021-0280 Junos OS: PTX Series, QFX10K Series: Upon receipt of specific packets BFD sessions might flap due to DDoS policer implementation in Packet Forwarding Engine

Due to an Improper Initialization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on PTX platforms and QFX10K Series with Paradise PE chipset-based line cards, ddos-protection configuration changes made from the CLI will not take effect as expected beyond the default DDoS Distributed Denial of Service...

CVE-2021-0280

CVE-2021-0280 affects Juniper Junos OS on PTX and QFX10K with Paradise (PE) chipset line cards. Root cause: Improper initialization in the DDoS policer path of the Packet Forwarding Engine, causing ddos-protection CLI changes to not apply beyond default DDoS settings. Impact: BFD session flapping...

What is DDoS attack❓ — Types and how to react to them

What is DDoS attack❓ — Types and how to react to them Distributed Denial of service attacks are assaults outfitted at making a PC, a cyber-service inaccessible by congesting it with traffic from various sources. The point is ordinarily to make the computers in question stop administration by...

Linux-Focused Cryptojacking Gang Tracked to Romania

A cryptojacking gang that’s likely based in Romania is using a never-before-seen SSH brute-forcer dubbed “Diicot brute” to crack passwords on Linux-based machines with weak passwords. The point of the campaign is mainly to deploy Monero mining malware, Bitdefender researchers said in a report...