Anonymous Hacker take down GoDaddy with IRC Bots

GoDaddy.com, which hosts millions of websites mostly for small businesses, said Monday it was investigating an outage that had knocked some of its customers offline. A hacker using the "Anonymous Own3r" Twitter account claimed credit for the outage, "Hello https://godaddy.com/ now yes! all server...

Millions of Go Daddy Sites, E-mail Accounts Knocked Offline in Alleged Anonymous DDoS Attack

Websites that use the Internet domain registrar and web hosting company Go Daddy were knocked offline earlier this afternoon in what appears to have been a distributed denial of service DDoS attack executed by a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Go Daddy tweeted about the outage shortly...

Создатель ботнета из 70 тысяч компьютеров сел на 2.5 года

Дата добавления: 07.09.12 Взято с: lеntа.ru Окружной судья округа Колумбия Ройс Ламберт Royce C. Lamberth приговорил 6 сентября 30- летнего жителя штата Аризона Джошуа Шихтеля Joshua Schichtel к двум с половиной годам тюремного заключения за использование сети зараженных компьютеров ботнета. Об...

Aramco Threatened With New Attack

Attackers are threatening to launch a second assault on Saudi Aramco on Saturday in order to prove its abilities and the fact that it’s not relying on help from an Aramco insider. The first attack on the oil company occurred last week and resulted in the company taking its Web sites offline, sayi...

Security Firm Reveals Flaw in Dirt Jumper Bot

A team of researchers has discovered a weakness in the command-and-control infrastructure of one of the major DDoS toolkits, Dirt Jumper, that enables them to stop attacks that are in progress. The command and control C&C servers of the Dirt Jumper DDoS toolkit can be compromised and, in principl...

Researchers Find Flaw in Dirt Jumper Bot

A team of researchers has discovered a weakness in the command-and-control infrastructure of one of the major DDoS toolkits, Dirt Jumper, that enables them to stop attacks that are in progress. The discovery gives the researchers the ability to access the back-end servers that control the attack...

WikiLeaks Back Online after Sustained DDoS Attack

The controversial document-sharing site WikiLeaks was back online Monday evening after sustaining a week-long distributed denial-of-service attack. The organization apparently received some extra capacity and assistance from Web performance and security firm Cloudfare to counter the 10 gigabits p...

XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS

Hello! I'll give you additional information concerning advisories CakePHP 2.x-2.2.0-RC2 XXE Injection http://securityvulns.ru/docs28331.html and Squiz CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities http://securityvulns.ru/docs28220.html. It's about XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS. Similarly to earlier...

CakePHP / Squiz CMS XXE Injection

Hello! I'll give you additional information concerning advisories CakePHP 2.x-2.2.0-RC2 XXE Injection http://securityvulns.ru/docs28331.html and Squiz CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities http://securityvulns.ru/docs28220.html. It's about XXE Injection in CakePHP and Squiz CMS. Similarly to earlier...

Firm Sees More DDoS Attacks Aimed at Telecom Systems

Attackers are now using DDoS services that offer attacks on telecommunication systems as part of larger attack schemes. These attacks, known as TDoS attacks, can be a relatively cheap option for cybercriminals looking into diversifying their attack vectors. Researchers have seen a series of...

Russian Hacker Arrested For DDoS Attacks on Amazon

Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, a Russian man accused of launching distributed-denial-of-service DDOS attacks on Amazon.com, has been arrested this week by authorities in Cyprus based on an international warrant, the Department of Justice revealed. Zubakha, a native of Moscow, was indicted for two deni...

Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution

This 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. Module Options msf use exploit/multi/http/zemra/panelrce msf...

Zemra Botnet Leaked, Cyber Criminals performing DDoS Attacks

Zemra Botnet Leaked, Cyber Criminals performing DDoS Attacks The Zemra DDoS Bot is currently sold in various forums for about 100 € and detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. Zemra first appeared on underground forums in May 2012. This crimeware pack is similar to other crime packs, such as Zeus...

The tale of LulzSec, two admits targeting websites

The tale of LulzSec two admits targeting websites Two British members of the notorious Lulz Security hacking collective have pleaded guilty to a slew of computer crimes, in the latest blow against online troublemakers whose exploits have grabbed headlines and embarrassed governments around the...

New Crimeware Bot Zemra behind DDoS Attacks

Zemra, a new crimeware bot that shares traits with the banking Trojans Zeus and SpyEye has been making the rounds lately, according to a recent post on Symantec’s Security Response blog. In the post, Symantec’s Alan Neville claims Zemra has been seen executing distributed denial of service attack...

Twitter Denies Hacktivists Behind Severe Outage

Twitter officials say it was a “cascading bug” and not the handiwork of hacktivists that brought down the microblogging site today in two separate outages. “This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today,” Mazen Rawashdeh, the company’s vice...

LulzSec Affiliate, Ryan Cleary, Indicted in U.S.

Ryan Cleary, the 20 year-old Essex, England hacker associated with the hacker collective LulzSec, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on Tuesday. According to an FBI press release, the grand jury indicted Cleary with one count of conspiracy and two counts of the unauthorized...

More Sophisticated DDoS Attack a New Threat to Apache Servers

A once flawed DDoS attack targeting the world’s most widely used Web servers has improved its cryptography and attack capabilities to become a more serious threat. MP-DDoser, also known as “IP-Killer,” uses a relatively new low-bandwidth, “asymmetrical” HTTP attack to inflict a denial-of-service...

Report: North Korea Accused Of DDoS Attack On South Korean Airport

North Korean agents have been linked to a malware attack on a South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, according to a report from the JoongAng Daily, a South Korean paper. The paper, citing the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, said that a 39 year-old South Korean man was arrested for...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...