Attack Campaigns Ramp Up for Organizations Down Under

DDoS and AppSec attacks impacting the ANZ region Australia and New Zealand have been in the headlines of late, with several high profile companies seeing prolonged outages and leading to speculation as to whether the region is being specifically targeted? Let’s take a closer look at the types of...

The‌ ‌Biggest‌ ‌Hacker‌ ‌Attacks‌ ‌on‌ ‌Gambling‌

Introduction With online gambling clubs turning into a staple alternative across nations like the United Kingdom, numerous sites are showing up out of nowhere and not all are protected or secure. Numerous club regulars pick to utilize correlation locales, as the UK gambling clubs recorded at...

DDOS by cancelling orders or removing approvals

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The market assumes that the maker of an order approved the swivel contract as there are many calls that move funds from the maker to the contract, see Swivel.initiateVaultFillingZcTokenInitiate/initiateZcTokenFillingVaultInitiate: uToken.transferFromo.maker,...

Bandwidth.com is latest victim of nonstop DDoS attacks against VoIP

By Deeba Ahmed Bandwidth.com has been suffering DDoS attacks for the past 3 days nonstop and at the time of publishing this article, its service was still down. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bandwidth.com is latest victim of nonstop DDoS attacks against VoIP...

PoW-Shield - Project Dedicated To Fight DDoS And Spam With Proof Of Work, Featuring An Additional WA

Project dedicated to provide DDoS protection with proof-of-work Description PoW Shield provides DDoS protection on OSI application layer by acting as a proxy that utilizes proof of work between the backend service and the end user. This project aims to provide an alternative to general captcha...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Mode 6 Query Response Check (UDP)

Services which are supporting the Network Time Protocol NTP and respond to Mode 6 queries are prone to an information disclosure and might be misused for Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenc...

DDoS of rebalance

Handle goatbug Vulnerability details Impact Given a bondDiv of say 400, it requires 0.25% of a portfolios capital to perform a Ddos attack. Portfolio rebalancing is often a time sensitive task. New weights need to be put into place to take advantage of shifts in capital market expectations etc...

Canadian firm VoIP.ms hit by non-stop extortion-based DDoS attacks

By Waqas Although unconfirmed; the notorious REvil ransomware gang could be behind the DDoS attacks on VoIP.ms. Here's what we know so far. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Canadian firm VoIP.ms hit by non-stop extortion-based DDoS attacks...

PT-2021-4746

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Hikvision IP cameras and network video recorders versions prior to v210628 Description A command injection issue exists in the web server of various Hikvision products due to insufficient input validation. A remote attacker can exploit this by...

Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day

By Waqas According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, and the US. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day...

Mirai botnet exploiting Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities

By Deeba Ahmed The infamous Mirai botnet lets threat actors use compromised devices to carry out large-scale and crippling DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai botnet exploiting Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities...

A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

DDoS Chart Toppers—BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits

New to the scene, monster-sized botnet Mēris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second rps attacks as shared by Cloudflare 17.2M rps, reported August 19, Yandex peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5, and KrebsOnSecurity 2M rps on September 9. Some commentary came in on Slashdot, The...

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrels...

DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS started out as an inconvenience: They were a roadblock that kept customers from getting at systems. That’s bad enough. Keeping availability away from customers via DDoS can have a painful impact on businesses as they find their doors blocked to customers, keepin...

Juniper Junos OS DoS (JSA11184)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability as referenced in the JSA11184 advisory. - Due to an Improper Initialization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on PTX platforms and QFX10K Series with Paradise PE chipset-based line cards...

Biggest DDoS Attack in History Hits Russian Tech Giant Yandex

Plus: A TrickBot hacker arrest, a Fortinet VPN password leak, and more of the week's top security news...

Mēris Botnet Hit Russia's Yandex With Massive 22 Million RPS DDoS Attack

Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company's web infrastructure with millions of HTTP requests, before hitting a peak of 21.8 million requests pe...

KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive and mercifully brief distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The assault came from "Meris," the same new botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex this week and internet infrastructure fi...

Yandex hit by largest DDoS attack involving 200,000 hacked devices

By Waqas Russian search engine giant Yandex has confirmed that its servers were targeted with cyber history’s largest DDoS attack last week. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Yandex hit by largest DDoS attack involving 200,000 hacked devices...