AT&T Takes Steps to Mitigate Botnet Found Inside Its Network

AT&T is taking action to take down a botnet that had set up shop inside its network, infecting 5,700 VoIP servers that route traffic from enterprise customers to upstream mobile providers. Researchers from Netlab, a network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, first discovered what...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: mingw-speex-1.2.0-9.fc35

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP VoIP, Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data e.g. voice mail...

DDoS attacks on VoIP and the urgent need for DDoS protection

VoIP companies have recently been the target of a series of ransom Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks around the globe with UK-based VoIP providers including VoIP Unlimited, and Quebec-based company VoIP.ms being hit by aggressive and sustained attacks destabilizing their infrastructure a...

Fedora: Security Advisory for matrix-synapse (FEDORA-2021-f12fdca1bf)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Bandwidth.com is latest victim of nonstop DDoS attacks against VoIP

By Deeba Ahmed Bandwidth.com has been suffering DDoS attacks for the past 3 days nonstop and at the time of publishing this article, its service was still down. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bandwidth.com is latest victim of nonstop DDoS attacks against VoIP...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: matrix-synapse-1.41.1-1.fc35

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: matrix-synapse-1.41.1-1.fc34

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in...

REvil gang hits UK ITSPs with series of extortion-based DDoS attacks

By Waqas Reportedly, the REvil ransomware gang is using DDoS attacks to make huge ransom demands from victim companies VoIP Unlimited and Voipfone. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: REvil gang hits UK ITSPs with series of extortion-based DDoS attacks...

Matrix Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-70122)

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated instant messaging and VoIP. Matrix 1.41.0 and earlier versions have an information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to access room names, avatars, topics and member counts...

Design/Logic Flaw

Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and Voice over IP. In versions 1.41.0 and prior, unauthorised users can access the name, avatar, topic and number of members of a room if they know the ID of the room. This vulnerability is limited to homeservers where the vulnerable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: matrix-synapse-1.38.1-1.fc34

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in...

Fedora: Security Advisory for matrix-synapse (FEDORA-2021-a627cfd31e)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Bugs Lurking in Cisco UC Provisioning Platform

The Akkadian Provisioning Manager, which is used as a third-party provisioning tool within Cisco Unified Communications environments, has three high-severity security vulnerabilities that can be chained together to enable remote code execution RCE with elevated privileges, researchers said. They...

Threat spotlight: DarkSide, the ransomware used in the Colonial Pipeline attack

Late last week, the business network systems of Colonial Pipeline, the biggest supplier of fuels on the East Coast of the United States, were compromised due to a ransomware attack, forcing the company to temporarily shut down its operations while investigations are underway. Monday morning,...

CVE-2021-29471

Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python pypi package matrix-synapse. Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. In Synapse before version 1.33.2 "Push rules" can specify conditions under which they will match, including eventmatch, which matches event...

Grandstream GRP261x VoIP phone running firmware command injection vulnerability

The Grandstream GRP261x VoIP phone is an IP phone from Grandstream USA. A carrier-grade IP phone designed for large-scale deployments. A command injection vulnerability exists in the Grandstream GRP261x VoIP phone running firmware version 1.0.3.6, which allows commands to be injected into its...

Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC Cross Site Scripting

Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC Multiple Stored/Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities Vendor: Sipwise GmbH Product web page: https://www.sipwise.com Affected version: =CEm39.3.1 NGCP wwwadmin version 3.6.7 Summary: Sipwise C5 also known as NGCP - the Next Generation Communication Platform is a SIP-based Open Source...

Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC - 'Multiple' Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Exploit Title: Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC - 'Multiple' Stored/Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS Date: 13.04.2021 Exploit Author: LiquidWorm Vendor Homepage: https://www.sipwise.com Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC Multiple Stored/Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities Vendor: Sipwise GmbH Product web page:...

Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC - (Multiple) Stored/Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC - 'Multiple' Stored/Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS Exploit Author: LiquidWorm Vendor Homepage: https://www.sipwise.com Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC Multiple Stored/Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities Vendor: Sipwise GmbH Product web page: https://www.sipwise.com Affected...

Sipwise C5 NGCP CSC CSRF Click2Dial Exploit

Summary Sipwise C5 also known as NGCP - the Next Generation Communication Platform is a SIP-based Open Source Class 5 VoIP soft-switch platform that allows you to provide rich telephony services. It offers a wide range of features e.g. call forwarding, voicemail, conferencing etc. that can be...