A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe, stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. Heres a closer look at the DarkSide...

How a DDoS Attack on an Internet Service Provider Can Paralyze Critical Infrastructure

The motivation behind Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks is often unknown. In some cases it might be cyber-vandalism, causing disruption for disruption’s sake. In other cases it might be down to hactivism, reaction to a cause or an event. And while DDoS attacks on business enterprises can...

Imperva® Opens the first dedicated DDoS scrubbing center in Santiago, Chile

Imperva is excited to be further expanding our presence in Latin America by launching a new Point of Presence PoP in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with leading Chilean Telecommunications provider Entel Corporations. Located within Entel’s gold-standard Ciudad de Los Valles datacenter, which has...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2021

News overview Q1 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets. News broke in January of the FreakOut malware, which attacks Linux devices. Cybercriminals exploited several critical vulnerabilities in programs installed on victim devices, including the newly discovered CVE-2021-3007. Botnet operator...

Massive DDoS Attack Disrupts Belgium Parliament

Belgian ISP Belnet has restored its service after a massive distributed denial of service DDoS attack earlier this week that cut off Internet access to numerous government, public, scientific and educational agencies, including Belgium’s Parliament and some law-enforcement agencies. Join Threatpo...

Major EU country hit by crippling DDoS attacks

By Waqas Over 200 Belgian Websites Become Target of DDoS Attacks. Here's what happened and which institution was hit by the DDoS attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major EU country hit by crippling DDoS attacks...

Phishing Attacks Spawn Three New Malware Strains

Two waves of global financial phishing attacks that swamped at least 50 organizations in December have delivered three new malware families, according to a report from FireEye’s Mandiant cybersecurity team. On Tuesday, the team said that they’ve dubbed the hitherto-unseen malware strains...

5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls

As the pandemic continues to fuel the shift to remote work, numerous manufacturers have capitalized on this movement to create a multitude of handy internet of things IoT devices. While these devices may make our home and work lives more convenient, they greatly expand the attack surface for...

CVE-2021-0259

Due to a vulnerability in DDoS protection in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on QFX5K Series switches in a VXLAN configuration, instability might be experienced in the underlay network as a consequence of exceeding the default ddos-protection aggregate threshold. If an attacker on ...

CVE-2021-0234

Due to an improper Initialization vulnerability on Juniper Networks Junos OS QFX5100-96S devices with QFX 5e Series image installed, ddos-protection configuration changes will not take effect beyond the default DDoS Distributed Denial of Service settings when configured from the CLI. The DDoS...

CVE-2021-0228

An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in Juniper Networks MX Series platforms with Trio-based MPC Modular Port Concentrator deployed in Ethernet VPN EVPN-Virtual Extensible LAN VXLAN configuration, may allow an attacker sending specific Layer 2 traffic to cause...

CVE-2021-0228

An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in Juniper Networks MX Series platforms with Trio-based MPC Modular Port Concentrator deployed in Ethernet VPN EVPN-Virtual Extensible LAN VXLAN configuration, may allow an attacker sending specific Layer 2 traffic to cause...

Input validation

Due to an improper Initialization vulnerability on Juniper Networks Junos OS QFX5100-96S devices with QFX 5e Series image installed, ddos-protection configuration changes will not take effect beyond the default DDoS Distributed Denial of Service settings when configured from the CLI. The DDoS...

Design/Logic Flaw

Due to a vulnerability in DDoS protection in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on QFX5K Series switches in a VXLAN configuration, instability might be experienced in the underlay network as a consequence of exceeding the default ddos-protection aggregate threshold. If an attacker on ...

Input validation

An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in Juniper Networks MX Series platforms with Trio-based MPC Modular Port Concentrator deployed in Ethernet VPN EVPN-Virtual Extensible LAN VXLAN configuration, may allow an attacker sending specific Layer 2 traffic to cause...

CVE-2021-0259

CVE-2021-0259 affects Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on QFX5K Series switches in VXLAN configurations. The issue arises from DDoS protection logic, where an improperly detected DDoS violation can cause a leaf to drop processing of certain L2 traffic from spines in the underlay, al...

CVE-2021-0259 Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: QFX5K Series: Underlay network traffic might not be processed upon receipt of high rate of specific genuine overlay packets in VXLAN scenario

Due to a vulnerability in DDoS protection in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on QFX5K Series switches in a VXLAN configuration, instability might be experienced in the underlay network as a consequence of exceeding the default ddos-protection aggregate threshold. If an attacker on ...

CVE-2021-0234

CVE-2021-0234 affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX5100-96S with QFX 5e Series image. The issue is an improper initialization that prevents ddos-protection changes from taking effect beyond default DDoS settings configured via CLI. The ddos-protection (jddosd) daemon keeps the device functioni...

CVE-2021-0234 Junos OS: QFX5100-96S: DDoS protection does not work as expected.

Due to an improper Initialization vulnerability on Juniper Networks Junos OS QFX5100-96S devices with QFX 5e Series image installed, ddos-protection configuration changes will not take effect beyond the default DDoS Distributed Denial of Service settings when configured from the CLI. The DDoS...

CVE-2021-0228 Junos OS: MX Series: DDoS LACP violation upon receipt of specific layer 2 frames in EVPN-VXLAN deployment

An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in Juniper Networks MX Series platforms with Trio-based MPC Modular Port Concentrator deployed in Ethernet VPN EVPN-Virtual Extensible LAN VXLAN configuration, may allow an attacker sending specific Layer 2 traffic to cause...