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DDoS Protection for Networks: Divert Traffic Using More Specific Routing
In our previous blog post, we talked about AS autonomous system prepending, but sometimes a customer might have restrictions that would not allow them to use AS prepending. If the customer owned more than a less specific prefix, for example /23 prefix, they could advertise a more specific route...
Lucifer malware infects Windows & launch DDoS attack using NSA exploits
By Waqas Lucifer malware is capable of launching DDoS attacks and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lucifer malware infects Windows & launch DDoS attack using NSA exploits...
Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack
By Waqas The DDoS attack on the bank was recorded in packets-per-second Pps and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack...
Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for developing Mirai botnet variants that compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide. The man, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, of Vancouver, Wash., was sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to creating and...
'Satori' IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed...
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
The U.S. Justice Department today charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things IoT devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. In addition, a...
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank. We believe this is a new industry record for PPS-focused...
Docker Images Containing Cryptojacking Malware Distributed via Docker Hub
With Docker gaining popularity as a service to package and deploy software applications, malicious actors are taking advantage of the opportunity to target exposed API endpoints and craft malware-infested images to facilitate distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and mine cryptocurrencies...
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank...
Self-Propagating Lucifer Malware Targets Windows Systems
Security experts have identified a self-propagating malware, dubbed Lucifer, that targets Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The never-before-seen malware initially tries to infect PCs by bombarding them with exploits in hopes of taking advantage of...
Key Elements for DDoS Detection, Mitigation and Analysis
Given today’s volatile DDoS threat landscape with attacks ranging from massive volumetric assaults to sophisticated and persistent application level threats, comprehensive protection is a must for online businesses. But what are the most important considerations for evaluating potential solutions...
DDoS Protection for Networks: Utilizing AS Prepending to Route Traffic Through Imperva
In order for Imperva to protect customers’ traffic using DDoS Protection for Networks, the Internet must select Imperva as the best path. So what does this mean? Does Imperva automatically take over the customer’s prefix and control the routing of the Internet? Well…not exactly. Internet Routing...
Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack
always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal. For those of us focused on protecting enterprises from threats, that also couldn't be more accurate...
Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack
always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal. For those of us focused on protecting enterprises from threats, that also couldn't be more accurate...
Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack
It always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal. For those of us focused on protecting enterprises from threats, that also couldn't be more accurate...
AWS suffers largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 TBPS
By Waqas The DDoS attack was mitigated by AWS Shield DDoS protection service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AWS suffers largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 TBPS...
F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIND vulnerability (K97810133)
The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 11.6.5.2 / 12.1.5.2 / 13.1.3.4 / 14.1.2.6 / 15.0.1.4 / 15.1.0.4 / 16.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K97810133 advisory. A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of...
The Bondnet Army
Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...
Internet Bug Bounty: IP-in-IP protocol routes arbitrary traffic by default - CVE-2020-10136
Many machines 150K-180K on the internet accept and route IP over IP by default. IP-in-IP encapsulation is a tunneling protocol specified in RFC 2003 that allows for IP packets to be encapsulated inside another IP packets. This is very similar to IPSEC VPNs in tunnel mode, except in the case of...
No prison for cyber criminal duo behind vDOS DDoS for hire service
By Waqas The pair of two cyber criminals have received six months of community service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: No prison for cyber criminal duo behind vDOS DDoS for hire service...