IBM Outs Dyre Wolf Campaign Steals $1 Million

The Dyre banking Trojan‘s ascension to the top of the financial malware food chain took a massive leap forward in the first three months of 2015. Already spreading a damaging piece of malware that targets corporate bank accounts, the Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social...

DDoS Attack on GitHub Linked to Earlier One Against GreatFire.org

The ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub, which has made the social coding site intermittently unresponsive since March 25, is essentially a side effect of an older operation from the Chinese government against a site run by the anti-censorship project GreatFire.org. Officials at GreatFire said that the...

GitHub hit by Massive DDoS Attack From China

Github – a popular coding website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – was hit by a large-scale distributed denial of service DDoS attack for more than 24 hours late Thursday night. It seems like when users from outside countries visit different websites on the Internet th...

GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack

A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing and collaboration site. The attack appears to have begun around 2 AM UTC on Friday and has been going...

JVN#81094176: Android OS may behave as an open resolver

A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Android OS contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver when the tethering function is enabled. Impact The Android device may be used in a DNS...

D-Link Routers Haunted by Remote Command Injection Bug

Some D-Link routers contain a vulnerability that leaves them open to remote attacks that can give an attacker root access, allow DNS hijacking and other attacks. The vulnerability affects affects a number of D-Link’s home routers and the key details of the flaw have been made public by one of the...

Komodia Website Under DDoS Attack

Komodia.com, home to the SSL interception module at the heart of the Superfish adware dustup, is currently under a distributed denial-of-service attack. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time, its home page had been replaced with a notice that the site was offline because it was under attack. “Some people say...

Hacktivist Group Anonymous (#OpISIS) Takes Down Islamic State (ISIS) Social Media Accounts

The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS — the radical Islamic terrorist group who were responsible for the terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. With huge social media presence,...

North Korea Sanctions Handed Out in Sony Hack

President Obama today signed an Executive Order authorizing sanctions against North Korea for its alleged involvement in the Sony hack. The FBI on Dec. 19 formally blamed the hack on the North Korean government; the attack destroyed workstations and resulted in the loss of employee personal and...

Хакеры «украли» Рождество у геймеров Xbox Live и PlayStation

Настоящему геймеру нет ничего приятнее, чем в новогоднюю/рождественскую ночь уединиться с игровой приставкой и оторваться по полной, когда все вокруг радуются смене последнего разряда в номере года. К сожалению, в этом году хакерская группа Lizard Squad подложила геймерам большую свинью, испортил...

North Korea Online Amid 'Proportional Response' Speculation

Ten hours after North Korea’s fragile and limited Internet connectivity disappeared on Monday, the isolated country was back online last night. While that much is certain, it’s still unknown who was behind the outage and why. Naturally, after promising on Friday a “proportional response,” immedia...

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for 'Pirate Bay' Takedown

An online "hacktivist" group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymo...

LOIC 1.0.8 (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) - A network stress testing application

Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC is an open source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application, written in C. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but was later released into the public domain, and now is hosted on several open source platforms. LOIC performs a...

JVN#21907573: SEIL Series routers vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS)

SEIL Series routers provided by Internet Initiative Japan Inc. contain a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability due to an issue in processing NTP requests. Impact By receiving a large volume of NTP request in a short time, the device might continue sending response packets. As a result, the device's...

FBHT v3.0 - Facebook Hacking Tool (Like flood, Note DDoS attack, FBFriendlyLogout, more...)

FBHTFacebook Hacking Tool is an open-source tool written in Python that exploits multiple vulnerabilities on the Facebook platform The tool provides: 1 Create accounts 2 Delete all accounts for a given user 3 Send friendship requests Test Accounts 4 Accept friendship requests Test Accounts 5...

Google Public DNS Server Spoofed for SNMP based DDoS Attack

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex, and, according to security experts, the next DDoS vector to be concerned about is SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol amplification attacks. Yesterday afternoon, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...

Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack

It’s been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by...

Anonymous Group Takes Down Mossad's Website Over Gaza Conflict

The hacktivist group Anonymous has reportedly taken down the official website of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad against Israel’s military incursion in Gaza, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. The government of Israel has yet to comment on the Mossad hack attack. The...

17-year-old Arrested for Massive DDoS Attack on Norway’s Financial Sector

The Norwegian police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old for a massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack earlier this week that disabled the websites of major financial institutions and other businesses in the country. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is designed to sabotage,...