Taiwanese President and Top Govt Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks Amid Pelosi visit

By Waqas The DDoS attacks also targeted the countrys largest airport, the Defence and Foreign Ministry. As US House Speaker… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Taiwanese President and Top Govt Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks Amid Pelosi visit...

PR-DNSd - Passive-Recursive DNS Daemon

Passive-Recursive DNS daemon. Quickstart nameserver 127.0.0.1 | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf dig google.com dig -x $dig +short google.com" go get github.com/korc/PR-DNSd sudo setcap capnetbindservice,capsyschroot=ep go/bin/PR-DNSd go/bin/PR-DNSd -upstream 9.9.9.9:53 -listen 127.0.0.1:53 echo...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Eclipse Californium version 2.0.0 to 2.7.2 and 3.0.0-3.5.0 a DTLS resumption handshake falls back to a DTLS full handshake on a parameter mismatch without using a HelloVerifyRequest. Especially, if used with certificate based cipher suites, that results in message amplification DDoS other peer...

CVE-2022-2576

In Eclipse Californium, CVE-2022-2576 affects versions 2.0.0–2.7.2 and 3.0.0–3.5.0. The DTLS resumption handshake can fall back to a full DTLS handshake on parameter mismatch without a HelloVerifyRequest, which, when used with certificate-based cipher suites, enables message amplification that ca...

Largest European DDoS Attack on Record

On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...

Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022

The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...

IoT Botnets Fuel DDoS Attacks – Are You Prepared?

While data breaches and ransomware are still considered among the more significant concern for businesses, the threats sometimes come from a direction we weren’t expecting. Cybercriminals use botnets for various malicious purposes, most significantly for DDoS attacks against targets. The most...

Hackers for Hire: Adversaries Employ ‘Cyber Mercenaries’

A for-hire cybercriminal group is feeling the talent-drought in tech just like the rest of the sector and has resorted to recruiting so-called “cyber-mercenaries” to carry out specific illicit hacks that are part of larger criminal campaigns. Dubbed Atlas Intelligence Group A.I.G., the cybergang...

DDoS App Meant to Hit Russia Infected Android Phones of Ukrainian Activists

By Deeba Ahmed The pro-Ukraine groups thought they were fighting back against Russia with a new DDoS app, but it turns… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS App Meant to Hit Russia Infected Android Phones of Ukrainian Activists...

Russia Creates Malware False-Flag App

The Russian hacking group Turla released an Android app that seems to aid Ukrainian hackers in their attacks against Russian networks. Its actually malware, and provides information back to the Russians: The hackers pretended to be a "community of free people around the world who are fighting...

Russian Hackers Tricked Ukrainians with Fake "DoS Android Apps to Target Russia" — The Hacker News

Russian threat actors capitalized on the ongoing conflict against Ukraine to distribute Android malware camouflaged as an app for pro-Ukrainian hacktivists to launch distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Russian sites. Google Threat Analysis Group TAG attributed the malware to Turla,...

Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai

By Waqas Mantis Botnet launched 3,000 DDoS attacks in one month using only 5,000 small bots after which Cloudflare dubbed… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai...

Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun.top and TheDonald.win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trumps invitation to "be wild" in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same...

Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS...

Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

If you’re one of the 50% of small and medium-sized businesses SMBs that use Mac .devices today, chances are your IT and security teams have a ton of Mac endpoints to monitor. Securing that many endpoints can get really complex, really fast, especially when you consider that the common wisdom that...

GHSA-5PGM-3J3G-2RC7 Valinor error messages leading to potential data exfiltration before v0.12.0

php registerConstructorMoney::class, 'fromString' -mapper; try vardump$mapper-mapFoo::class, 'a' = 'HAHA', 'b' = '100 EUR', 'c' = 'USD 100' ; catch MappingError $e $messages = new NodeTraverserfunction Node $node foreach $node-messages as $message vardump '$message', $message-path, $message-body ...

Valinor error messages leading to potential data exfiltration before v0.12.0

php registerConstructorMoney::class, 'fromString' -mapper; try vardump$mapper-mapFoo::class, 'a' = 'HAHA', 'b' = '100 EUR', 'c' = 'USD 100' ; catch MappingError $e $messages = new NodeTraverserfunction Node $node foreach $node-messages as $message vardump '$message', $message-path, $message-body ...

CVE-2014-3648

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached...

Design/Logic Flaw

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached...

CVE-2014-3648

The CVE-2014-3648 issue concerns the simplepush server, where notifications are pushed for each registered installation using a deviceToken supplied by the user. The vulnerability arises because a bogus application can register with bad deviceTokens or point to arbitrary HTTP endpoints. This can ...