Akamai's Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots

Too many security efforts react to threats as they come. While security teams often succeed through Herculean efforts, being constantly under siege takes its toll on your resources. The relentless barrage of bot attacks will eventually crack the human- and system-based methods to block or mitigat...

Advanced protection for web applications in Azure with Radware’s Microsoft Security integration

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. The state of application security Companies face a wide range of security challenges, such as Open Source Foundation for Application Security Project OWASP vulnerabilities,...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry

At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...

ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language a...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry

At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...

CVE-2020-21524

There is a XML external entity XXE vulnerability in halo v1.1.3, The function of importing other blogs in the background/api/admin/migrations/wordpress needs to parse the xml file, but it is not used for security defense, This vulnerability can detect the intranet, read files, enable ddos attacks...

Xxe

There is a XML external entity XXE vulnerability in halo v1.1.3, The function of importing other blogs in the background/api/admin/migrations/wordpress needs to parse the xml file, but it is not used for security defense, This vulnerability can detect the intranet, read files, enable ddos attacks...

CVE-2020-21524

There is a XML external entity XXE vulnerability in halo v1.1.3, The function of importing other blogs in the background/api/admin/migrations/wordpress needs to parse the xml file, but it is not used for security defense, This vulnerability can detect the intranet, read files, enable ddos attacks...

A week in security (September 14 – 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Fintech industry developments, specifically the differences between Europe and the US, and we analyzed how some charities and the advertising industry are tied together. We also told readers about what companies can do to counter domain name abuse. In...

Major Global Ransom Denial of Service Campaign Continues Rising Trend in Global DDoS Attacks

Extortionists Claim Connection to Notorious Threat Actor Groups In recent weeks Imperva has become aware of a considerable increase in the number of serious Ransom Denial of Service RDoS threats, with extortion campaigns targeting thousands of large commercial organizations globally, not least th...

DDoS Attacks Skyrocket as Pandemic Bites

The first half of 2020 saw a significant uptick in the number of distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year — a phenomenon that appears to be directly correlated to the global coronavirus pandemic. Neustar’s Security Operations Center SOC saw a 151 percent...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : GUPnP vulnerability (USN-4494-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4494-1 advisory. It was discovered that GUPnP incorrectly handled certain subscription requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to exfiltrate data or use GUPnP to...

Lock and Code S1Ep15: Safely using Google Chrome Extensions with Pieter Arntz

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher for Malwarebytes, about Google Chrome extensions. These sometimes helpful online tools that work directly...

Every Application Should Be Behind a WAF

It's no secret that security threats continue to expand in volume and variety, making headlines on virtually a daily basis. From nation-state attacks, corporate espionage, and data exfiltration campaigns to all-in-one and sneaker bot campaigns, businesses across the globe find themselves dealing...

Teen arrested for 8 DDoS attacks that disrupted school’s online classes

By Deeba Ahmed A teen is accused of using Low Orbit Ion Cannon to shut down online classes of the' fourth-largest school district in the US with DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Teen arrested for 8 DDoS attacks that disrupted school’s online classes...

Digital Education: The cyberrisks of the online classroom

This past spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, online learning became the new norm as universities and classrooms around the world were forced to close their doors. By April 29, 2020, more than 1.2 billion children across 186 countries were impacted by school closures. Shortly after school...

DoS and DDoS Attacks against Multiple Sectors

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service DoS and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against finance and business organizations worldwide. A DoS attack is accomplished by flooding the targeted host or network...

After Windows, Lucifer malware returns to haunt Linux devices

By Sudais Asif Lucifer malware is capable of conducting DDoS attacks and mine Monero cryptocurrency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: After Windows, Lucifer malware returns to haunt Linux devices...

Imperva mitigates largest DDoS attacks of 2020… so far…

The word “unprecedented” has never been used so much as it has during 2020. And in the latest of many unprecedented events, July saw the two largest recorded DDoS attacks of the year so far. As revealed in our July 2020 Cyber Threat Index Report, published today, Imperva Research Labs recorded tw...

DDoS Attacks Cresting Amid Pandemic

The number of distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks spiked in the second quarter of 2020, researchers said. According to the latest Kaspersky quarterly DDoS attacks report, DDoS events were three times more frequent in comparison to the second quarter last year up 217 percent, and were up 30...