TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

TalkTalk Hacked; 4 Million Credit Card Profiles may have been Stolen

TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based phone and Internet service provider with more than 4 Million customers, has been hacked again, the company announced late Thursday. TalkTalk is informing its 4 million customers that it has fallen victim to a "significant and sustained cyber attack" and it is...

Hacking CCTV Cameras to Launch DDoS Attacks

The connected devices, better known as the Internet of Things, have been attracting the significant interest of, not only users but also cyber criminals that are turning them into weapons for cyber war. Due to the insecure implementation of Internet-connected embedded devices, they are routinely...

Incredible! Someone Just Hacked 10,000 Routers to Make them More Secure

Has anyone ever heard about a "Vigilante-style Hacker," who hacks every possible system to make them more Secure? No. It's not funny, neither a movie story: Reportedly, someone is hacking thousands unprotected Wi-Fi routers everywhere and apparently forcing owners to make them more Secure. Securi...

Zemra Botnet (C2 Web Panel) - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits the CnC web panel of Zemra Botnet which...

Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits the CnC web panel of Zemra Botnet which contains a backdoor inside its leaked source code. Zemra is a crimeware bot that can be used to conduct DDoS attacks and is detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/downlo...

Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits the CnC web panel of Zemra Botnet which...

Imgur: Server Side Request Forgery In Video to GIF Functionality

imgur.com is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery because it fails to sanitize or verify the "url" GET parameter. This could be used by attackers to launch attacks against other 3rd party sites or proxy an attackers requests through the affected site to hide the attackers origin. In more...

New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service DDoS attacks of over 150 gigabits per second Gbps. The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20...

JavaScript-Based DDoS Peaks at 275,000 Requests Per Second

Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly. Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, th...

wolfssl -- DDoS amplification in DTLS

Sebastian Ramacher identified an error in wolfSSL's implementation of the server side of the DTLS handshake, which could be abused for DDoS amplification or a DoS on the DTLS server itself...

Portmapper Amplification Scanner

This module can be used to discover Portmapper services which can be used in an amplification DDoS attack against a third party. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Portmapper...

Wordpress Crash Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications / + Exploit Title : Wordpress Crash Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer vulnerability + Exploit Author : Ashiyane Digital Security Team + Tested on : Windows - Firefox + Vendor Homepage :...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-366)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

How to Remove KeyRaider Malware that Hacked Over 225,000 iOS Devices

Jailbreaking your device may have got you the best of apps but after reading this you will know what a high price you could have to pay for the jailbreak. Read on… A malware named ‘KeyRaider’ has supposedly stolen user credentials of approximately 225K iPhone users. It has been given this name as...

Six U.K. Teens Arrested for using Lizard Squad's DDoS Tool

Six British teenagers arrested and released on bail on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on websites and services with the help of Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, called Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad is infamous for hacking and knocking down the largest online gaming networks – PlayStation...

BitTorrent Fixes Reflective DDoS Attack Security Flaw

Two weeks ago, we reported how a serious flaw in the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent file sharing protocols could be exploited to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack, allowing lone hackers with limited resources to take down large websites. Good news is that the...

BitTorrent Patches DDoS Vulnerability

BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective denial of service attacks. The issue was revealed in a paper and presentation at the recent USENIX...

GitHub Again Hit by DDoS Cyberattack

Github – the popular code sharing website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – again became a victim of a distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. The attack came just a few months after the popular code repository website GitHub suffered a massive DDo...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Code repository Github mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack, restoring services this morning around 9 a.m. Eastern time. According to a Github status log, connectivity problems began today around 5:30 a.m. with Github declaring it was under a DDoS attack an hour later. A request for...