PT-2018-1757

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MikroTik RouterOS versions prior to 6.42 Description The issue is caused by a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface of MikroTik RouterOS, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote...

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a series of distributed denial of service campaigns against financial sector businesses. The attacks utilized at least 13,000 hijacked IoT devices generating traffic volumes up to 30 Gbps, considerably less intense than the original Mirai assaults...

Ddos2Track - An Script To Avoid HTTP Floods Attacks

With this tool you can block HTTP Flood Attacks and analyze them with a honeypot. THE TOOL SEND YOU AN ADVERTISING EMAIL AFTER DETECT A DDOS ATTACK! First start the honeypot server tools/analyze/logger.py. Then start the detector tools/detector/detector.sh in another window. If an attacker attack...

DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?

Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack can be anything from a small nuisance to something that can break your revenue stream and damage it permanently. A DDoS attack can cripple some online businesses for a period of time long enough to se...

Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days

Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed. Chinese Qihoo 360's Netlab, whose global DDoS...

Google, PlayStation & NRA suffered DDoS attacks via Memcached servers

By Waqas By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google, PlayStation & NRA suffered DDoS attacks via Memcached servers...

Kill Switch Can Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks Via Memcached Servers

By Waqas Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kill Switch Can Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks Via Memcached Servers...

New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant

This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services. The services then unwittingly respond by sending a much larger number of unwanted packets to a target. The best known vectors for these...

Medium: memcached

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the memcached daemon listened on UDP port 11211 by default. An attacker could use memcached for UDP amplification denial-of-service attacks. The UDP port has been disabled by default, but can still be enabled. It was discovered that the memcached connections...

IoT Security Disconnect: As Attacks Spike, Device Patching Still Lags

As more businesses bring IoT devices onboard they are coming face to face with the security downsides of the IoT boom, researchers say. According to a report by Trustwave released last week, 61 percent of companies surveyed who have deployed some level of connected technology have also had to dea...

CVE-2018-1000115

It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP transport protocol can be abused for efficient traffic amplification distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. A remote attacker could send a malicious UDP request using a spoofed source IP address of a target system to memcached, causi...

Red Hat Releases Security Guidance for Memcached

Red Hat has released security recommendations to address potential Distributed Denial of Service attacks using Memcached. This misconfiguration could allow an attacker to exploit Memcached services as a reflection and amplification vector, causing unexpected volumes of traffic to be sent to...

Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion

Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which...

Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals behind distributed denial of service attacks have added a new and highly effective technique to their arsenal to amplify attacks by as much as 51,200x by using misconfigured memcached servers accessible via the public internet. The technique was reported by Akamai, Arbor Networks a...

Memcached Servers Abused for Massive Amplification DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of major websites and Internet infrastructure. In recent days, security researchers at Cloudflare, Arbor...

DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

Coalition, Inc.: Non-Cloudflare IPs allowed to access origin servers

Hello Security Team, Summary: Like report 255978 It is possible to access origin servers served by nginx and not cloudflare. Description: Even though these IP's don't serve a functional version of the app it is possible to enable DDoS attacks by bypassing cloudflare protections. Steps To Reproduc...

Survey: APIs a Growing Cybersecurity Risk

Like a lot of people, your mobile phone number is probably easily accessible to anyone with a bit of searching. Imagine if someone could take this number and your name and gain access to your mobile phone account including billing, email address and phone IMSI. Or maybe someone hacked into one of...

Presenting: Malwarebytes Labs 2017 State of Malware Report

2017 was a tumultuous year in politics, media, gender, race—and cybersecurity didn’t beat the rap. Last year was full of twists and turns in the cybercrime world, with major outbreaks, new infection methods, and the evolution of the cryptocurrency crime industry. In aiming to make sense of the...