Legislation Proposed to Secure Connected IoT Devices

A Senate bill introduced today would prioritize security in connected devices, requiring providers who sell to the U.S. government to implement measures that would have been an impediment to the IoT botnet-fueled attacks against DNS provider Dyn and webhost OVH. The Internet of Things Cybersecuri...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2017

News Overview The second quarter of 2017 saw DDoS attacks being more and more frequently used as a tool for political struggle. The Qatar crisis was accompanied by an attack on the website of Al Jazeera, the largest news network in the area, Le Monde and Le Figaro websites were targeted in the he...

Feds Seize BTC-E exchange website – CoinBase suffers DDoS attacks

By Waqas A couple of days ago it was reported that the 38-year-old Russian This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds Seize BTC-E exchange website CoinBase suffers DDoS attacks...

Windows SMB Zero Day to Be Disclosed During DEF CON

LAS VEGAS—A 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability is expected to be disclosed Saturday during a talk at DEF CON. Microsoft has said it will not patch the vulnerability, which allows an attacker to remotely crash a Windows server with relative ease using only 20 lines of Python code and a Raspberr...

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers. According to reports in the German press, the British man, who was using online monikers "Peter Parker...

Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom

A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court on Friday that he was behind an attack last year that knocked close to 1 million customers of German ISP Deutsche Telekom offline. The suspect is a 29-year old British man who is only identified as “Daniel K.” He was arrested Feb...

Superior and safe user experiences with the Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform

Your customers are unique and they all expect fast, secure, personalized digital experiences. They are spread across the world, in regions of varying network connectivity, utilize a plethora of devices and screen sizes - making it challenging to deliver your experiences. By delivering 95 Exabytes...

Adwind RAT Returns! Cross-Platform Malware Targeting Aerospace Industries

Hackers and cyber criminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While other operating systems are more widely in use, cybercriminals have now shifted from traditional activities to more clandestine techniques that come with limitless attack vector...

DNSSEC RR Stub Resolver Denial Of Service Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/perl DNS/DNSSEC RR stub resolvers amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose...

DNS/DNSSEC RR Stub Resolver Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl DNS/DNSSEC RR stub resolvers amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The...

rpcinfo Portmap DUMP Call Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/perl rpcinfo Portmap 'DUMP' call amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONL...

rpcinfo Portmap DUMP Call Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl rpcinfo Portmap 'DUMP' call amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The...

IoT mDNS / DNS-SD QM Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service Exploit

IoT mDNS/DNS-SD QM amplification distributed denial of service exploit. !/usr/bin/perl IoT mDNS/DNS-SD 'QM' amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev email protected https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for...

IoT mDNS/DNS-SD QM Amplification Distributed Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl IoT mDNS/DNS-SD 'QM' amplification ddos Copyright 2017 c Todor Donev [email protected] https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Disclaimer: This or previous program is for Educational purpose ONLY. Do not use it without permission. The usual...

UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service

A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against websites of some of the world's leading businesses. Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old teenager from Stockport, is accused of helping cyber criminals with...

Move Securely to the Cloud: WAF Requirements and Deployment Options

Moving to the cloud has become an overwhelmingly popular trend even among organizations that were at first reluctant to make the move. Wherever you are in your cloud migration plan, it can take time, sometimes years, and often starts with first moving peripheral workloads to the cloud while leavi...

Hackers Demand Banks $315k Ransom or Face DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Armada Collective, a group of online attackers, is demanding a ransom payment of $315,000 from South Korean banks In the case of refusal, the group has threatened the banks with a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. The threats came days after South Korean web...

A week in security (June 19 – June 25)

Last week, we expanded on all the different technologies that Malwarebytes uses to break the attack chain and our Incident Response solution. We also warned you about a Roblox Robux generator scam and a phish targeting customers of Barclays Bank. Below are notable news stories and security-relate...

Wreckuests - Tool to run DDoS atacks with HTTP-flood

Wreckuests is a script, which allows you to run DDoS attacks with HTTP-floodGET/POST. It's written in pure Python and uses proxy-servers as "bots". OF COURSE, this script is not universal and you can't just drop Pentagon/NSA/whatever website with one mouse click. Each attack is unique, and for ea...

IoT Malware Activity Already More Than Doubled 2016 Numbers

The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things IoT devices has already more than doubled last year’s total. Honeypots laid out by Kaspersky Lab researchers mimicking a number of connected devices running Linux have attracted more than 7,200 differen...