UFONet Open Redirect DDoS Attack

UFONet – is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using ‘Open Redirect’ vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: CWE-601:Open Redirect OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Installing UFONet UFONet runs on many platforms. It requires Python 2.x.y...

UK Police Arrested Second Hacker Over PlayStation and Xbox DDoS attacks

A UK man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day has been arrested by the United Kingdom police. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed Denial-of-Service DDo...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

Two 'Lizard Squad' Hackers Arrested After Christmas DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day was arrested by the United Kingdom police on Monday. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed...

Lizard Squad vs Anonymous — 'PlayStation, Xbox and Tor Network' Attacks

It was the sad Christmas day for gamers all around the world!! A lot of people get new PlayStations and Xboxes on Christmas, but this Christmas they bought the game, popped it into the console for online gaming, and what they found? Oh Crap! I can't log on. It was the notorious hacker group "Liza...

Exploits Circulating for Remote Code Execution Flaws in NTP Protocol

Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. The vulnerabilities are present in all versions of NTP prior to 4.2.8 and include several buffer overflows that are...

BASHLITE Malware leverages ShellShock Bug to Hijack Devices Running BusyBox

Cyber criminals are using new malware variants by exploiting GNU Bash vulnerability referred to as ShellShock CVE-2014-6271 in order to infect embedded devices running BusyBox software, according to a researcher. A new variant of "Bashlite" malware targeting devices running BusyBox software was...

Securing an Internet Made From 'Duck Tape and Baling Wire'

LAS VEGAS–The Internet that we use today was not designed as a cohesive network. It was put together from found bits and pieces over the course of the last few decades, and, as major bugs such as Heartbleed and others have shown, it’s a frighteningly fragile construction. Attackers know this as...

Shellshock Exploits Used Against SMTP Servers at Webhosts

The persistence of the Shellshock vulnerability remains high more than a month after it first surfaced. The latest attacks involved SMTP servers belonging to web hosts, said a report published by the SANS Internet Storm Center. Attackers are using Shellshock exploits targeting the now infamous...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

Arbor: DDoS Attacks Getting Bigger as Reflection Increases

Reflected distributed denial of service DDoS attacks continue to increase, particularly among large scale DDoS events, but it’s a relatively new type of amplification attack which exploits the Simple Service Directory Protocol SSDP that has emerged in a new Arbor Networks report. Data from the...

UFONet - DDoS attacks via Web Abuse (XSS/CSRF)

UFONet - is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using 'Open Redirect' vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: - CWE-601:Open Redirect - OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Main features: --version show program's version number and exit -v,...

Phony Googlebots Becoming a Real DDoS Attack Tool

Even an enterprise with the harshest, strictest blocking rules in place is likely to leave the door ajar for Google’s search bot software known as a Googlebot. Googlebots crawl websites collecting data along the way in order to build a searchable index that assures a site will be listed and ranke...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Low: chrony

Issue Overview: It was reported that the cmdmon protocol implemented in chrony was found to be vulnerable to DDoS attacks using traffic amplification. By default, commands are allowed only from localhost, but it's possible to configure chronyd to allow commands from any address. This could allow ...

Dramatic Drop in Vulnerable NTP Servers Used in DDoS Attacks

While patching of webservers vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug may have stalled, the same cannot be said about repairs to NTP servers that could be leveraged in devastating amplification attacks. A spate of distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS tore through companies in January and...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

SNMP Reflection DDoS Attacks on the Rise

The DDoS techniques have massively increased with the attackers becoming more skillful at working around the network security. A massive 300Gbps DDoS attack launched against Spamhaus website almost broke the Internet a year ago and also earlier this year, hackers have succeeded in reaching new...

FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware

On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...