Rootstock Labs: Traffic amplification attack via discovery protocol

A vulnerability was discovered in the RSKJ node's UDP discovery protocol that allowed for traffic amplification DDoS attacks. The ping-pong mechanism intended to protect against this was not properly implemented, allowing an attacker to successfully finish it even with a spoofed IP. By sending a...

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost...

ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers

Fresh statistics reveal a mix bag of good news and bad when it comes to distributed denial-of-service attacks in Q4 2018. According to the latest numbers available, the sheer number of attacks are down, but the length of time those attacks last have reached record lengths. The numbers come from...

The Challenges of DIY Botnet Detection – and How to Overcome Them

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things IoT they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would - printers, webcams, and even toasters and fridges. Some botnets enlist infected devices to mine cryptocurrency or steal passwords from oth...

Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs

A pioneering distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack pattern has emerged, targeting internet service providers ISPs with something researchers have dubbed the bit-and-piece “Mongol” attack. The approach involves spreading out junk traffic across large numbers of IP addresses in order to evade...

Linux: Broadcast ICMP echo requests

Broadcast ICMP echo requests are used by the ping command to find all hosts on the network or subnet. An attacker can use Broadcast ICMP echo requests for a DoS/DDoS attack on the network. This script tests whether the Linux host is configured to ignore Broadcast ICMP echo requests...

Imperva Increases Self-Service Capability Fourfold with Custom Security Rules

Back in 2014, we introduced Rules previously IncapRules to give our customers advanced control over their application security. Today we’re putting even more of this custom tuning power in the hands of our customers by quadrupling the number of filters available via self-service. Rules Basics Rul...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

Semrush: Persistent CSV injection

Hi Team, https://www.semrush.com/notes is vulnerable to persistent csv injection stored csv injection POC: 1 Login into application and open https://www.semrush.com/notes 2 click on "Add note" button 3 And enter csv injection payloads like =4+4, =HYPERLINK"http://evil.com", "EVIL" and click on sa...

Mirai Masterminds Helping FBI Snuff Out Cybercrime

The three masterminds behind Mirai – the infamous botnet known for taking down internet services in a 2016 DDoS attack – will work with the FBI in future cybercrime investigations as part of their sentencing for creating and operating the botnet. The three hackers, Paras Jha 22, of New Jersey,...

Experts Bemoan Shortcomings with IoT Security Bill

An internet of things IoT bill that would mandate unique passwords for connected devices has been approved by the California state legislature. It will be the first potential connected device regulation to come into effect in the United States if California Gov. Jerry Brown decides to sign it —...

Teen arrested for DDoS attack on ProtonMail & making fake bomb threats

By Waqas ProtonMail, a Swiss-based end-to-end email encryption service, has announced the name of one of the attackers involved in the DDoS attack against the company earlier this year. Due to the attack, the email service of ProtonMail stopped responding for a minute several times despite having...

DDoS attack from Anonymous Catalonia cripples Bank of Spain website

By Waqas The official website of Banco de España Bank of Spain, which is the central bank of the country, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack on Sunday. The attack potentially disrupted the website’s operations and it became inaccessible at the beginning of the week. The attack...

Enhanced Infrastructure DDoS Protection Analytics: Targeted Visibility for Greater Accuracy

We've rolled out enhanced infrastructure protection analytics which shows top traffic patterns for traffic flowing through our Incapsula Infrastructure DDoS Protection service. Imperva clients can now view network statistics categorized by source or destination IPs and ports, or by packet size fo...

Apache, IBM Patch Critical Cloud Vulnerability

Apache and IBM have patched a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to replace a company’s serverless code with their own malicious script. Once running, the bad code could then be used for a range of nefarious tasks, including extracting confidential customer data such as passwords or...

When It Comes To IoT Security, Liability Is Muddled

BOSTON—From hacked connected cars to power grids, the implications of IoT security issues seem to be getting graver – yet when it comes to pointing fingers for security troubles, many times victims don’t even know where to start. IoT experts said at the Security of Things Forum today said that a...

Liberapay: Missing back-end user input validation can lead to DOS flaw

Hello Team, Usually such kind of reports are out of scope, however I still would like to report you the business logic weakness that should be eliminated, at least from my point of view. Due to missing user input validation it is can lead to application unavailability. Details: During brief revie...

Moodle 3.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (May 2018) - Windows

Moodle CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only CPE = "cpe:/a:moodle:moodle"; ifdescription...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...

CVE-2018-1137

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...