High-Traffic Denial-of-Service Amplification Attacks Remain

It seems the exaggerated volume of bad traffic used in politically motivated DDoS attacks last year was not an isolated phenomenon. Distributed denial-of-service attacks that congest Internet connectivity and disrupt online services topped unprecedented levels in 2013, shoving aside stealthier...

Java-Bot, a Cross-platform malware launching DDoS attacks from infected computers

These days botnets are all over the news. In simple terms, a botnet is a group of computers networked together, running a piece of malicious software that allows them to be controlled by a remote attacker. A major target for most of the malware is still Windows, but the growing market of Mac OS X...

Malicious Java App is Cross-Platform Botnet

Java-related security issues have remained relatively quiet during the past few months, especially after a rocky start to 2013 seemingly had one Java flaw after another in the news. Things might be starting to ramp up again with the discovery of a cross-platform Java-based botnet. Researchers at...

BlackPOS Malware used in TARGET Data Breach developed by 17-Year Old Russian Hacker

The Holiday data breach at TARGET appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, involving the heist of possibly 110 million Credit-Debit cards, and personal information. Target confirmed last weekend that a malicious software wa...

TA14-013A: NTP Amplification Attacks Using CVE-2013-5211

NCCIC / US-CERT National Cyber Awareness System: TA14-013A: NTP Amplification Attacks Using CVE-2013-5211 01/13/2014 05:51 PM EST Original release date: January 13, 2014 | Last revised: January 14, 2014 Systems Affected NTP servers Overview A Network Time Protocol NTP Amplification attack is an...

100Gbps DDoS attack took down Gaming servers with NTP Servers

The New Year begins with a new form of amplified Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attack, a weapon for attackers to bring down websites and servers. As we have reported two weeks ago that the attackers are abusing the Network Time Protocol NTP servers to perform an amplified version of DDoS...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification Attacks

A vulnerability in the "monlist" feature of ntpd can allow remote attackers to cause distributed denial of service attack DDoS via forged requests. US-CERT and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Center CCIRC have both observed active use of this attack vector in recent DDoS attacks. US-CERT...

[DAVOSET] Tool for conducting DDoS attacks

DAVOSET – it is console command line tool for conducting DDoS attacks on the sites via Abuse of Functionality vulnerabilities at other sites. Changelog v1.1.5 Added error handler in GetCookie. Added new services into lists of zombies. Removed non-working services from lists of zombies. Usage 1...

Abusing Network Time Protocol (NTP) to perform massive Reflection DDoS attack

In 2013, we have seen a significant increase in the use of a specific distributed denial of service DDoS methodology known as Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks DrDoS. Open and misconfigured DNS Domain Name System can be used by anyone to resolve domain names to IP addresses are...

Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) monlist Command Enabled DoS

The version of ntpd running on the remote host has the 'monlist' command enabled. This command returns a list of recent hosts that have connected to the service. However, it is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in ntprequest.c that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to saturat...

[Bugtroid] Pentesting for Android

Bugtroid is an innovative tool developed by the team of Bugtraq-Team. The main features of this apk, is that it has more than 200 Android and Linux tools PRO for pentesting and forensics through its Smarthphone or tablet. It has a menu categorized according to the nature of the tool may find:...

Trojan.Ferret DDoS Botnet Discovered

Researchers at Arbor Networks have identified a new DDoS bot with a fancy for ferrets. Following a clue in a tweet, researcher Dennis Schwarz found Trojan.Ferret, including a command and control panel with some insight into targets. To date, a relatively small number of malware samples and comman...

Hacker fined with $183,000 for just one-Minute of DDoS attack

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XXE Injection in Spring Framework

Hello! I'll give you additional information concerning advisory XML External Entity XXE Injection in Spring Framework http://securityvulns.ru/docs29758.html. ------------------------- Affected products: ------------------------- - 3.0.0 to 3.2.3 Spring OXM & Spring MVC - 4.0.0.M1 Spring OXM -...

DDoS Attacks originated from thousands of .EDU and .GOV WordPress Blogs

In a recent cyber attack on a Forum site, thousands of outdated legitimate WordPress blogs were abused to perform DDOS attacks using previously known vulnerabilities. After analyzing the Log file from the victim's server, we have noticed many Wordpress CMS based educational .EDU and Government .G...

DDoS Attacks originated from thousands of .EDU and .GOV WordPress Blogs

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Danish Bitcoin exchange BIPS hacked and 1,295 Bitcoins worth $1 Million Stolen

The breaking news is that, another Bitcoin exchange company gets hacked i.e. BIPS bips.me, one of the largest European Danish Bitcoin payment processors. On Friday evening, a bunch of cyber criminals just broke into BIPs -Bitcoin payment processor servers and wiped out around 1,295 Bitcoin from...

Atrax Kit Boasts Tor Connectivity, Bitcoin Extraction

Yet another commercial crimekit has been spotted making the rounds on the underground malware forums that uses the anonymity network Tor to stealthily communicate with its command and control servers. While it isn’t the first of its kind to use Tor, the kit, nicknamed Atrax, is cheap and comes wi...

Java based Cross platform malware targeting Apache Tomcat servers in the wild

Takashi Katsuki, a researcher at Antivirus firm Symantec has discovered a new cyber attack ongoing in the wild, targeting an open-source Web server application server Apache Tomcat with a cross platform Java based backdoor that can be used to attack other machines. The malware, dubbed as...

DDoS attack from Browser-based Botnets that lasted for 150 hours

Browser-based botnets are the T-1000s of the DDoS world. Just like the iconic villain of the old Judgment Day movie, they too are designed for adaptive infiltration. This is what makes them so dangerous. Where other more primitive bots would try to brute-force your defenses, these bots can simply...