Two 'Lizard Squad' Hackers Arrested After Christmas DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day was arrested by the United Kingdom police on Monday. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed...

Хакеры «украли» Рождество у геймеров Xbox Live и PlayStation

Настоящему геймеру нет ничего приятнее, чем в новогоднюю/рождественскую ночь уединиться с игровой приставкой и оторваться по полной, когда все вокруг радуются смене последнего разряда в номере года. К сожалению, в этом году хакерская группа Lizard Squad подложила геймерам большую свинью, испортил...

Lizard Squad vs Anonymous — 'PlayStation, Xbox and Tor Network' Attacks

It was the sad Christmas day for gamers all around the world!! A lot of people get new PlayStations and Xboxes on Christmas, but this Christmas they bought the game, popped it into the console for online gaming, and what they found? Oh Crap! I can't log on. It was the notorious hacker group "Liza...

For patch NTP-Network Time Protocol vulnerabilities, Apple released the first Auto-Update Patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Last night, Apple released its first automated patch, used to repair Appleoperating systemon the keyNetwork Time Protocol（NTP）vulnerabilitiesthe. The patch can be automatically patched, and does not require the user to restart the operation. NTP Network TimeProtocol, the Network Time Protocol, is...

First Time Ever Apple Automatically Pushes Security Patch for Mac OS

First time ever in the History, Apple Inc. has pushed out an automatic security update for Macintosh OS X computers to address a critical security issue that, according to the company, was too risky to wait for users to patch after seeking their prior approval. Despite having the ability for year...

North Korea Online Amid 'Proportional Response' Speculation

Ten hours after North Korea’s fragile and limited Internet connectivity disappeared on Monday, the isolated country was back online last night. While that much is certain, it’s still unknown who was behind the outage and why. Naturally, after promising on Friday a “proportional response,” immedia...

Exploits Circulating for Remote Code Execution Flaws in NTP Protocol

Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. The vulnerabilities are present in all versions of NTP prior to 4.2.8 and include several buffer overflows that are...

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for 'Pirate Bay' Takedown

An online "hacktivist" group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymo...

LOIC 1.0.8 (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) - A network stress testing application

Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC is an open source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application, written in C. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but was later released into the public domain, and now is hosted on several open source platforms. LOIC performs a...

JVN#21907573: SEIL Series routers vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS)

SEIL Series routers provided by Internet Initiative Japan Inc. contain a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability due to an issue in processing NTP requests. Impact By receiving a large volume of NTP request in a short time, the device might continue sending response packets. As a result, the device's...

NTP Reflection Attack

OVERVIEW NCCIC/ICS-CERT has been following the increase in denial-of-service DoS attacks using Network Time Protocol NTP Reflection. This type of attack provides an adversary the ability to generate high volume distributed denial of service DDoS traffic to target web sites or public‑facing device...

BASHLITE Malware leverages ShellShock Bug to Hijack Devices Running BusyBox

Cyber criminals are using new malware variants by exploiting GNU Bash vulnerability referred to as ShellShock CVE-2014-6271 in order to infect embedded devices running BusyBox software, according to a researcher. A new variant of "Bashlite" malware targeting devices running BusyBox software was...

Securing an Internet Made From 'Duck Tape and Baling Wire'

LAS VEGAS–The Internet that we use today was not designed as a cohesive network. It was put together from found bits and pieces over the course of the last few decades, and, as major bugs such as Heartbleed and others have shown, it’s a frighteningly fragile construction. Attackers know this as...

New BlackEnergy Crimeware Enhanced to Target Linux Systems and Cisco Routers

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed new capabilities in the BlackEnergy Crimeware weapon that has now ability to hacking routers, Linux systems and Windows, targeting industry through Cisco network devices. The antivirus vendor’s Global Research & Analysis Team released a report...

Spike DDoS Toolkit GET Flood Denial of Service

Spike DDos Toolkit has multiple DDoS payloads, including SYN flood, UDP flood, Domain Name System DNS query flood, and GET floods...

Bash broken shell vulnerability ShellShock and Transfiguration: for the mail server SMTP attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Bash broken shell vulnerability, ShellShock, CVE-2 0 1 4-6 2 7 1 new using the method again! According to the Internet storm center SANS InternetStorm Center for the latest news: a broken shell vulnerability the latest The use of the method of initiation of a new round of attack is brewing, this...

Shellshock Exploits Used Against SMTP Servers at Webhosts

The persistence of the Shellshock vulnerability remains high more than a month after it first surfaced. The latest attacks involved SMTP servers belonging to web hosts, said a report published by the SANS Internet Storm Center. Attackers are using Shellshock exploits targeting the now infamous...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

Reflection DDoS Attacks Using Millions of UPnP Devices on the Rise

After successful in launching reflection and amplification Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks by abusing various protocols such as DNS, NTP and SMTP, hackers are now abusing Simple Service Discovery Protocol SSDP – part of the UPnP protocol standard – to target home and office devices,...

Sandworm APT Team Found Using Windows Zero Day Vulnerability

UPDATE–A cyberespionage team, possibly based in Russia, has been using a Windows zero day vulnerability to target a variety of organizations in several countries, including the United States, Poland, Ukraine and western Europe. The vulnerability, which will be patched today by Microsoft, is...