Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released

Two separate proofs-of-concept PoC exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily. The first DDoS tool is written in C programming language and works with a pre-compiled lis...

Microsoft Telnet Services Credential Reflection Code Execution (MS09-042; CVE-2009-1930)

Telnet is a bidirectional communications protocol that allows for command line remote administration over the TCP protocol. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the way Microsoft Windows Telnet Service handles NTLM credentials. The vulnerability is due to an error in the...

Microsoft Windows SMB Credential Reflection Remote Code Execution (MS08-068; CVE-2008-4037)

SMB reflection attacks is a type of "Man-in-the-Middle" MITM attack in which an attacker reflects the clients SMB challenge back to the client and by that bypass security, allowing the attacker to execute code in the context of the logged-on user. A remote code execution vulnerability has been...

Chargen Probe Utility

Chargen is a debugging and measurement tool and a character generator service. A character generator service simply sends data without regard to the input. Chargen is susceptible to spoofing the source of transmissions as well as use in a reflection attack vector. The misuse of the testing featur...