Meet Borat RAT, a New Unique Triple Threat

Atlanta-based cyber risk intelligence company, Cyble discovered a new Remote Access Trojan RAT malware. What makes this particular RAT malware distinct enough to be named after the comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen? RAT malware typically helps cybercriminals gain complete control of a victim's...

Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack

By Waqas According to Google, the geographic distribution of the DDoS attack suggests that it might have been launched through… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack...

Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second

Google's cloud division on Thursday disclosed it mitigated a series of HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks which peaked at 46 million requests per second RPS, making it the largest such DDoS offensive recorded to date. The attack, which occurred on June 1, 2022, targeting an unnamed...

In the Fight Against DDoS Attacks, not all PoPs are Created Equal

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. A DDoS attack is launched from numerous compromised devices, often distributed globally in what ...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...

OESA-2022-1821 dnsmasq security update

Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portabl...

New Hacker Forum Takes Pro-Ukraine Stance

A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against Russia and Belarus, researchers have found. The Russian-language site, DUMPS Forum, has been around since late May, and at first glance...

The Business of Hackers-for-Hire Threat Actors

Today's web has made hackers' tasks remarkably easy. For the most part, hackers don't even have to hide in the dark recesses of the web to take advantage of people any longer; they can be found right in plain sight on social media sites or forums, professionally advertised with their websites, an...

CISA Releases Cybersecurity Toolkit to Protect U.S. Elections

CISA—through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—has released a toolkit of free cybersecurity resources for the election community. The toolkit aims to help state and local government officials, election officials, and vendors enhance the cybersecurity and cyber resilience of U.S. election...

New IoT RapperBot Malware Targeting Linux Servers via SSH Brute-Forcing Attack

A new IoT botnet malware dubbed RapperBot has been observed rapidly evolving its capabilities since it was first discovered in mid-June 2022. "This family borrows heavily from the original Mirai source code, but what separates it from other IoT malware families is its built-in capability to brute...

A Growing Number of Malware Attacks Leveraging Dark Utilities 'C2-as-a-Service'

A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control C2 services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems. "It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack...

Attackers leveraging Dark Utilities "C2aaS" platform in malware campaigns

By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec. Executive Summary Dark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries. It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution,...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

News overview Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. ALtahrea Team, a group targeting NATO and its partners, attacked public transportation websites in Israel and the United Kingdom. Israel s...

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...