DDoS Attacks in Q4 2018

News overview In Q4 2018, security researchers detected a number of new botnets, which included not only Mirai clones for a change. The fall saw increased activity on the part of the Chalubo bot, whose first attacks were registered in late August. Although the new malware employs snippets of Mira...

The Challenges of DIY Botnet Detection – and How to Overcome Them

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things IoT they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would - printers, webcams, and even toasters and fridges. Some botnets enlist infected devices to mine cryptocurrency or steal passwords from oth...

UBNT Discovery Protocol Amplification Attack (UDP) - Active Check

A publicly accessible Ubiquity device exposing the UBNT Discovery Protocol can be exploited to participate in a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

FreeBSD : p5-Email-Address-List -- DDoS related vulnerability (22b90fe6-258e-11e9-9c8d-6805ca0b3d42)

Best PRactical Solutions reports : 0.06 2019-01-02 - Changes to address CVE-2018-18898 which could allow DDoS-type attacks. Thanks to Lukas Kramer for reporting the issue and Alex Vandiver for contributing fixes. - Fix pathological backtracking for unkown regex - Fix pathological backtracking in...

State of the Internet, Volume 5, Issue 1

Is it too late to still say "Happy New Year?" We don't think so. We're kicking off 2019 with our first issue of the State of the Internet / Security. Goal setting is something that security teams around the world are doing right now. What are your team's goals? How do your goals align with the...

Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services

If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions ...

A Look Back At The DDoS Trends of 2018

As mentioned in the 2018 Year in Review State of the Internet / Security report, trends in DDoS are remarkably stable. The size of the largest attacks have grown by approximately 6% on an annual basis, with occasional outliers like the Mirai botnet. The median size of attacks has been much more...

Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs

A pioneering distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack pattern has emerged, targeting internet service providers ISPs with something researchers have dubbed the bit-and-piece “Mongol” attack. The approach involves spreading out junk traffic across large numbers of IP addresses in order to evade...

Linux: Log Martians packets

Martian packets are packets with an obviously wring source address. These packets can not be routed over the network. An attacker can use those packets, e.g. for a DoS/DDoS attack. Logging those packets can help for further inspections. This script tests whether the Linux host is configured to lo...

Linux: Broadcast ICMP echo requests

Broadcast ICMP echo requests are used by the ping command to find all hosts on the network or subnet. An attacker can use Broadcast ICMP echo requests for a DoS/DDoS attack on the network. This script tests whether the Linux host is configured to ignore Broadcast ICMP echo requests...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30...

Imperva Increases Self-Service Capability Fourfold with Custom Security Rules

Back in 2014, we introduced Rules previously IncapRules to give our customers advanced control over their application security. Today we’re putting even more of this custom tuning power in the hands of our customers by quadrupling the number of filters available via self-service. Rules Basics Rul...

Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out...

Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed

By Waqas A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka "BestBuy and Popopret" to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting country's Internet and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage...

Anonymous hacker jailed for 10 years over hospital DDoS attacks

By Waqas He conducted those DDoS attacks for OpJustina back in 2014. In April 2014, Martin Gottesfeld 34 from Massachusetts claimed his affiliation with the online hacking group Anonymous and conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks distributed denial-of-service on Boston Children’s Hospital an...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

At CES, Focus is On ‘Cool Factor’ Not IoT Security

With the Consumer Electronics Show CES afoot this week, headlines are crammed with the offbeat connected products from the show – including everything from a smart belt all the way down to a connected toilet. But one important topic seems to be missing from the troves of CES news and even from th...

The Promise and Peril of 5G

The next generation of mobile cellular technology known as fifth-generation wireless 5G is hitting a peak in the hype cycle, emerging as a major theme/5G.aspx at the Consumer Electronics Show CES this week. Wireless carriers are investing billions of dollars into the technology, which requires a...

Digital Identity, Digital Trust, Janrain and Akamai

Authentication on the World Wide Web is badly broken. We all know it, or at least sense it. Every web site or mobile app that we want to use asks us to register and set up yet another account with yet another username and password. With the typical end user having tens of online accounts, this...