400 Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack Alarmingly Simple

The largest distributed denial of service attack on public record was reported this week, and with it came many alarming numbers, not only in the volume of traffic generated 400 Gbps at its peak, but in the number of Network Time Protocol servers involved 4,592 on 1,298 networks as well as the...

Largest Ever 400Gbps DDoS attack hits Europe uses NTP Amplification

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is the one of favourite weapon for the hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet and till now nearly every big site had been a victim of this attack. Since 2013, Hackers have adopted new tactics to boost Distributed...

NTP Amplification Blamed for 400 Gbps DDoS Attack

For those of you who thought the infamous Spamhaus distributed denial-of-service attack set an ugly bar for the volume of spurious traffic sent at a target, gird yourself for worse. A massive DDoS attack, reaching at its peak 400 Gbps of bad traffic, was detected late yesterday against a number o...

MGASA-2014-0032 Updated ntp packages work around security vulnerability

The "monlist" command of the NTP protocol is currently abused in a DDoS reflection attack. This is done by spoofing packets from addresses to which the attack is directed to. The ntp installations itself are not target of the attack, but they are part of the DDoS network which the attacker is...

100Gbps DDoS attack took down Gaming servers with NTP Servers

The New Year begins with a new form of amplified Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attack, a weapon for attackers to bring down websites and servers. As we have reported two weeks ago that the attackers are abusing the Network Time Protocol NTP servers to perform an amplified version of DDoS...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification Attacks

A vulnerability in the "monlist" feature of ntpd can allow remote attackers to cause distributed denial of service attack DDoS via forged requests. US-CERT and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Center CCIRC have both observed active use of this attack vector in recent DDoS attacks. US-CERT...

Hacker fined with $183,000 for just one-Minute of DDoS attack

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Danish Bitcoin exchange BIPS hacked and 1,295 Bitcoins worth $1 Million Stolen

The breaking news is that, another Bitcoin exchange company gets hacked i.e. BIPS bips.me, one of the largest European Danish Bitcoin payment processors. On Friday evening, a bunch of cyber criminals just broke into BIPs -Bitcoin payment processor servers and wiped out around 1,295 Bitcoin from...

Java based Cross platform malware targeting Apache Tomcat servers in the wild

Takashi Katsuki, a researcher at Antivirus firm Symantec has discovered a new cyber attack ongoing in the wild, targeting an open-source Web server application server Apache Tomcat with a cross platform Java based backdoor that can be used to attack other machines. The malware, dubbed as...

South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack

Last Tuesday, The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country. That Malware is collecting location data and IP addresses of infected users and...

Hacker stole $100,000 from Users of California based ISP using SQL Injection

In 2013 we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of hack attacks attempted against banks, credit unions and utility companies using various techniques including DDoS attack, SQL injection, DNS Hijacking and Zero-Day Flaws. SQL Injection is one of the most common security vulnerabilities on...

World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack

In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...

World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack

In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...

13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback'

A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback" Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack,...

13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback'

A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback" Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack,...

16-Year-Old Teenager arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever

16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest largest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus. The teenager, whose name is unknown at this point, was arrested by British police in April, but details of his arrest were just leaked to the...

16-Year-Old Teenager arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever

16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest largest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus. The teenager, whose name is unknown at this point, was arrested by British police in April, but details of his arrest were just leaked to the...

Thousands of Wordpress blogs compromised to perform DDOS attack

There is currently a Mega cyber attack campaign being launched on a large number of WordPress websites across the Internet. In April, 2012 we reported about a large distributed brute force attack against millions of WordPress sites were occurring, out of that hackers are successful to compromise...

Thousands of Wordpress blogs compromised to perform DDOS attack

There is currently a Mega cyber attack campaign being launched on a large number of WordPress websites across the Internet. In April, 2012 we reported about a large distributed brute force attack against millions of WordPress sites were occurring, out of that hackers are successful to compromise...

China hit by massive DDoS attack causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours. Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single...