UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack

UPDATE – UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service DDoS attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day. “Currently, only customers utilizing a segment of UltraDNS Name Server addresses are experiencing resolution latency due to intermitte...

Volume of NTP Amplification Attacks Getting Louder

No security arena is better representative of the cat and mouse game between hackers and defenders than DDoS attacks and prevention/mitigation. Enterprises and service providers have invested heavily in DDoS mitigations in order to keep critical services available. That’s forced hackers to crank ...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc / Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I took of...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service / Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I to...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

/ Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I took of the code that generates a DDoS, so this code onl...

Exploiting Facebook Notes to Launch DDoS

The way Facebook Notes handles HTML image tags could could give an attacker the ability to launch distributed denial of service attacks against external sources, using the power of the massive network to amplify the attack. Facebook Notes is a sort of Tumblr-like internal blogging feature built...

Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly. A Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13 claims that the flaw resides in 'Notes' section of the most popular social networking site - Facebook, that...

DDoS Attacks a Cover for Financial Fraud, IP Theft

It’s difficult to imagine a noisier attack than a distributed denial-of-service attack. They’re an ever-present threat to banks and other businesses where the uptime of Web-based services is critical to customers and the well-being of an enterprise. And as a handful proved throughout 2013, they a...

Financial Services Companies Facing Varied Threat Landscape

SAN FRANCISCO — Many of the stories about attacks on banks, payment processors and other portions of the financial services system around the world depict these intrusions as highly sophisticated operations conducted by top-level crews. However, the majority of the attacks these companies see...

HULK - Web Server DoS Tool

HULK is a web server denial of service tool DDoS Tool written for research purposes. It is designed to generate volumes of unique and obfuscated traffic at a webserver, bypassing caching engines and therefore hitting the server's direct resource pool. The Hulk Web server is a brainchild of Barry...

WordPress XML-RPC PingBack vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 9.47.56 AM A recent article outlines how to use the WordPress XML-RPC pingback functionDDosattack. This article will be on the attack for analysis, while for the site administrator to provide information to protect their website. This is not a new vulnerability WordPre...

InVision: TLS Renegotiation and Denial of Service Attacks on InVision.

Hi, I found a Bug in your website.It's a TLS Renegotiation and Denial of Service Attacks. Description:- A group of hackers known as THC The Hacker's Choice last week released an interesting DoS tool that works at the SSL/TLS layer. The tool is exploiting the fact that, when a new SSL connection i...

WordPress XML-RPC PingBack vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

This is not a new vulnerability WordPress XML-RPC API is not new launch. The following is the seven years ago wordpress bug data. ! Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 10.15.29 AM Although the vulnerability is not the latest, but the attack code/tools is nearly two years to appear. Tools for script kiddies...

Researchers Uncover Interesting Browser-Based Botnet

Security researchers discovered an odd DDoS attack against several sites recently that relied on a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in a major video Web site and hijacked users’ browsers in order to flood the site with traffic. The attack on the unnamed site involved the use of...

Regulators To US Banks: Be Vigilant of ATM Fraud, DDoS

U.S. regulators are warning banks this week about a recent rash of “large dollar value” ATM fraud and the ongoing risks distributed denial of service DDoS attacks that target public bank websites can pose. Members of FFIEC, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency se...

Cyber Tool Estimates Incident Response Cost for Businesses

A thorough and freely available tool aims to help security professionals and executives anonymously tabulate the costs incurred on enterprises following all manner of cyber-incidents. Called CyberTab, the tool was created by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by the consulting firm Boo...

Vulnerability in World Largest Video Site Turned Million of Visitors into DDoS Zombies

An application layer or 'layer 7' distributed denial of service DDoS attacks is one of the most complicated web attack that disguised to look like legitimate traffic but targets specific areas of a website, making it even more difficult to detect and mitigate. Just Yesterday Cloud-based security...

Millions of Vulnerable Routers aiding Massive DNS Amplification DDoS Attacks

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex with the increase in the skills of attackers and so, has become one of favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend or crash the services of a host connected to the Internet and till now...

Home Routers at Core of DNS-Based DDoS Amplification Attacks

DNS providers Nominum have published new data on DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks that are using home and small office routers as a jumping off point. The provider said that in February alone, more than five million home routers were used to generate attack traffic; that number represents mor...

Over 20Gbps DDoS attacks Now Become Common for Hackers

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack has become more sophisticated and complex and therefore has become one of the favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend the services of any host connected to the Internet and till now nearly every big site had been a victim of thi...