WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Serves DDoS attack feature

Accunetix a web application security company reported vulnerabilities found in the Wordpress Pingback feature. According to report, Pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. "WordPress has a...

WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Could Lead to DDoS Attacks

A pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks if the right script is run, according to web application security firm Acunetix. A pingback is technically something blog owners rely on to track w...

DDoS Attacks on Major US Banks Resurface

UPDATE — The group that claimed responsibility for large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks in September and October has carried out another flurry of attacks that are still ongoing today. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters posted its latest threat on Pastebin,...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...

Tor-Powered Botnet Linked to Malware Coder's AMA on Reddit

In the process of analyzing a seemingly new and fairly small botnet called Skynet, Rapid7 security researchers determined that this was precisely the same network described by its creator in a particularly bold ‘Ask Me Anything’ AMA on the social news site Reddit earlier this year. Claudio...

Anonymous hit Egyptian Government Websites as #OpEgypt

Anonymous hackers once again hit Egyptian Government Websites and taken down. Hackers react under operation named OpEgypt and hit 30 websites with DDos attack. Hacktivist using the handle @AnonymousGrupo claimed the responsibility of attack. Attacked websites include, The Egyptian Presidency...

CVE-2012-6059

CVE-2012-6059 affects the Wireshark ISAKMP dissector. The vulnerability arises from the dissect_isakmp function using an incorrect data structure to determine IKEv2 decryption parameters, allowing remote attackers to crash the application via a malformed packet. Affected versions include Wireshar...

Go Daddy Attributes DNS Hack to Phishing

A spokesman at Go Daddy, the popular domain registrar and Web host company, believes that some of its users may have been phished – and that’s to blame for the barrage of ransomware some customers have been seeing in past week or so. Last week it was reported that attackers had placed malicious D...

Unsafe is the user rather than the system-then talk about QQ input method vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In Win8 Remote Desktop vulnerabilities: the use of QQ Pinyin pure version achieve provided the right of this article, The authors found through a"Remote Desktop input method loophole". right, so as to achieve control Winows 8 The remote machine method. Here is what principle? When we see the Remo...

Incapsula innovative DDoS Protection techniques

Several weeks ago we reviewed Incapsula, a Cloud-based Security service which can significantly enhance the security of your website, while also boosting its performance. Following this review we've received many responses from our readers who wanted to learn more about Incapsula protection...

Planned Cyberattacks on US Banks on Hold

Upwards of 30 major U.S. banks and financial institutions have been given a reprieve. The hacker behind a coordinated attack against giants such as Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, PNC, Wells Fargo and nearly two dozen other banks has called off the operation after media reports surfaced a month...

New Backdoor DDoS Malware Co-Existing on Gh0stRAT-Infected Machines

Gh0st RAT has a new roommate. A new backdoor called ADDNEW has been discovered on machines infected with the Gh0st remote access Trojan, adding new distributed denial of service attack capabilities, as well as a feature that targets passwords and credentials stored on the Firefox browser. Gh0st R...

Russian Underground Cybercrime market offering sophisticated services

Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services range from one-time packages which cost just pennies to sophisticated packages and services which cost purchasers thousands of dollars per month. If you want to buy a botnet it wi...

Multiplatform Java Jacksbot Malware infecting Windows, Linux and Mac

Intego discovered a Multiplatform Java Malware called "Jacksbot" , which is infecting Windows, Linux and Mac systems. The Jacksbot is described as a 'backdoor Trojan Java "on infected computers and collects system information, make screenshots, delete files, steal passwords and perform click frau...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

Attackers Turn to Open DNS Resolvers to Amplify DDoS Attacks

Although DDoS attacks have been a serious problem for more than a decade now and security staffs have a good handle on how they’re executed and how to handle them, attackers constantly adjust their tactics in order to defeat the best defenses available. One of the more recent tactics adopted by...

Anonymous Hacker claims to have 20,000 debit card details from HSBC Cyberattack

One of Anonymous hacker groups "FawkesSecurity" who claim responsibility for a DDOS cyber attack on HSBC Bank says that they also manage to get 20,000 debit card details. When HSBC said, "This denial-of-service attack did not affect any customer data, but did prevent customers using HSBC online...

DarkBot Malware Circulation very fast via Skype

Two weeks back we reported that Security firm Trend Micro discovered a worm targeting Skype users with spam messages designed to infect machines with the Dorkbot ransomware has been discovered. This malware is spreading through a question/ phrase sent to the users by someone and the question is:...

Nitol Botnet Shares Code with Other China-Based DDoS Malware

Microsoft has learned that much of the code used by the Nitol malware family is copied from free malware resources hosted on Chinese websites. Microsoft posted portions of the code online this week where similar lines used for denial of service attack functionality are present in Nitol and on the...