The Bondnet Army

Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...

Internet Bug Bounty: IP-in-IP protocol routes arbitrary traffic by default - CVE-2020-10136

Many machines 150K-180K on the internet accept and route IP over IP by default. IP-in-IP encapsulation is a tunneling protocol specified in RFC 2003 that allows for IP packets to be encapsulated inside another IP packets. This is very similar to IPSEC VPNs in tunnel mode, except in the case of...

No prison for cyber criminal duo behind vDOS DDoS for hire service

By Waqas The pair of two cyber criminals have received six months of community service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: No prison for cyber criminal duo behind vDOS DDoS for hire service...

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SUBSCRIBE can be abused to send traffic to arbitrary destinations

Overview The Universal Plug and Play UPnP protocol in effect prior to April 17, 2020 can be abused to send traffic to arbitrary destinations using the SUBSCRIBE functionality. Description The UPnP protocol, as specified by the Open Connectivity Foundation OCF, is designed to provide automatic...

CVE-2020-12695 "CallStranger"

The Open Connectivity Foundation UPnP specification before 2020-04-17 does not forbid the acceptance of a subscription request with a delivery URL on a different network segment than the fully qualified event-subscription URL, aka the CallStranger issue. Recent assessments: kevthehermit at June 0...

Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli...

Hybrid DDoS Protection is Like a Faulty Airbag

We know that some businesses are the target of constant DDoS attacks, while others face attacks less frequently. If your company falls on the side of less-frequent attacks or having never been attacked at all, you might be wondering, “does the threat still exist?” And “does it exist to the level ...

IP-in-IP protocol routes arbitrary traffic by default

Overview IP Encapsulation within IP RFC2003 IP-in-IP can be abused by an unauthenticated attacker to unexpectedly route arbitrary network traffic through a vulnerable device. Description IP-in-IP encapsulation is a tunneling protocol specified in RFC 2003 that allows for IP packets to be...

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of...

Inside the Hoaxcalls Botnet: Both Success and Failure

The Hoaxcalls botnet, built to carry out large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, has been actively in development since the beginning of the year. One of its hallmarks is that it uses different vulnerability exploits for initial compromise. Researchers, however, have discovered th...

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: xmlrpc.php FILE IS enable which enables attacker to XSPA Brute-force and even Denial of Service(DOS), in https://████/xmlrpc.php

Summary: Hello team, I have found a security vulnerability inhttps://███████/xmlrpc.php which lets attacker to: 1: XSPA or PortScan 2: Bruteforce 3:DOS and much more Description: Impact Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions █████████ 1: Go to https://██████/xmlrpc.php to check if it is enabled o...

Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation

Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...

How Imperva Advanced Mesh Topology Keeps Canadian Data In-Country

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA is a Canadian federal law that sets out how organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. While PIPEDA does not prohibit the transfer of personal information outside of...

Cybersecurity best practices to implement highly secured devices

Almost three years ago, we published The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices, which introduced a new standard for IoT security and argued, based on an analysis of best-in-class devices, that seven properties must be present on every standalone device that connects to the internet in order ...

Alleged Hacker Behind Massive ‘Collection 1’ Data Dump Arrested

A hacker accused of selling hundreds of millions of stolen credentials from last year’s “Collection 1” data dump on the dark web has been arrested in the Ukraine. The Security Service of Ukraine SSU took into custody a threat actor known as “Sanix,” who they claim posted 773 million e-mail...

New DNS Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

Israeli cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new flaw impacting DNS protocol that can be exploited to launch amplified, large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks to takedown targeted websites. Called NXNSAttack, the flaw hinges on the DNS delegation mechanism to...

When Bandwidth Doesn’t Last

Introduction Imperva’s Cloud WAF networking team went through a major transition from an operation team to a development team during the SDN era. We saw new products emerging for our network infrastructure - moving from manual operation to automatic. But, while the change of mindset from being an...

Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique

Firms like Google and Cloudflare raced to prevent an amplification attack that threatened to take down large portions of the internet with just a few hundred devices...

Windows DNS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability involving packet amplification that affects Windows DNS servers. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS Server service to become nonresponsive. To exploit this vulnerability an attacker would need to have access to at...