Taking Stock: The Internet of Things, and Machine Learning Algorithms at War

It’s in the news every day; hackers targeting banks, hospitals, or, as we’ve come to fear the most, elections. Suffice to say then that cybersecurity has, in the last few years, gone from a relatively obscure industry – let's qualify that: not in the sense of importance, but rather how folks have...

Mirai, Gafgyt Botnets Return to Target Infamous Apache Struts, SonicWall Flaws

Researchers have discovered new variants for the infamous Mirai and Gafgyt IoT botnets – now targeting well-known vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and SonicWall. The new Mirai strain targets the Apache Struts flaw associated with the 2017 Equifax breach, while the Gafgyt variant uses a...

Teen arrested for DDoS attack on ProtonMail & making fake bomb threats

By Waqas ProtonMail, a Swiss-based end-to-end email encryption service, has announced the name of one of the attackers involved in the DDoS attack against the company earlier this year. Due to the attack, the email service of ProtonMail stopped responding for a minute several times despite having...

Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was "Feds Can't Touch Us" pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools. On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.'s National Crime Agency NCA arrested Hertfordshire resident George...

GLEG Agora SCADA+ Exploit Pack

OVERVIEW On March 15, 2011, GLEG Ltd. announced the Agora SCADA+ Exploit Pack for Immunity’s CANVAS system. CANVAS is a penetration testing framework that is extensible using CANVAS Exploit Packs. On March 25, 2011, GLEG announced it would be adding exploits for the 35 vulnerabilities released by...

DDoS attack from Anonymous Catalonia cripples Bank of Spain website

By Waqas The official website of Banco de España Bank of Spain, which is the central bank of the country, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack on Sunday. The attack potentially disrupted the website’s operations and it became inaccessible at the beginning of the week. The attack...

Mirai Variant Cross-Compiles Attack Code with Aboriginal Linux

Criminals behind a Mirai botnet have been spotted using an unusual technique: Leveraging an open-source project called Aboriginal Linux to create a compiled binary, with versions of the malware tailored to each targeted platform. The malware authors are leveraging Aboriginal – a legitimate tool f...

Back to Basics: Why We Need to Encourage More Secure IoT Development

The Internet of Things IoT is radically reshaping the way we live and work. Before our very eyes, organizations are becoming more agile, efficient and cost effective to run, all while consumers marvel at the wonders of the smart home, fitness trackers and connected cars. There’s just one major...

Black Hat Exclusive Video: The IoT Security Threat Looms for Enterprises

IoT devices are everywhere – from connected smart-home gadgets to industrial IoT systems. And it’s not stopping anytime soon – consumer IoT spending is set to reach $62 billion in 2018, making it the fourth largest industry segment, according to market research firm IDC. Many of these IoT devices...

Black Hat 2018: IoT Security Issues Will Lead to Legal ‘Feeding Frenzy’

LAS VEGAS – The troves of insecure internet of things IoT devices have not yet led to widespread legal implications. But that’s set to change, a well-known attorney warned at Black Hat USA last week. Ijay Palansky, partner at the law firm Armstrong Teasdale, said at the conference last week that...

Enhanced Infrastructure DDoS Protection Analytics: Targeted Visibility for Greater Accuracy

We've rolled out enhanced infrastructure protection analytics which shows top traffic patterns for traffic flowing through our Incapsula Infrastructure DDoS Protection service. Imperva clients can now view network statistics categorized by source or destination IPs and ports, or by packet size fo...

Ramnit Changes Shape with Widespread Black Botnet

The recently uncovered “Black” botnet campaign using the Ramnit malware racked up 100,000 infections in the two months through July– but the offensive could just be a precursor to a much larger attack coming down the pike, according to researchers, thanks to a second-stage malware called Ngioweb...

UBoat - HTTP Botnet Project

A POC HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponised commercial botnet. Disclaimer This project should be used for authorized testing or educational purposes only. The main objective behind creating this offensive project was to aid security researchers and to enhance the understanding of...

Imperva to Acquire DevOps Security Leader Prevoty

Today, we announced that we entered into an agreement to acquire Prevoty, an innovator and leader in building application security that can block attacks and monitor interactions inside application stacks using DevOps and agile development. I’m incredibly excited that the Prevoty team will join...

Apache, IBM Patch Critical Cloud Vulnerability

Apache and IBM have patched a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to replace a company’s serverless code with their own malicious script. Once running, the bad code could then be used for a range of nefarious tasks, including extracting confidential customer data such as passwords or...

MariaDB: xmlrpc.php on mariadb.org can lead to DDOS and brute force attacks

XMLRPC was enabled and accessible on our website. Since we don't need any of the functionality provided by the Wordpress XMLRPC protocol, we were already trying to block XMLRPC requests to our site via our web server configuration, however, due to a syntactic error our enforcing rule did not appl...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2018

News overview Q2 2018 news includes: non-standard use of old vulnerabilities, new botnets, the cutthroat world of cryptocurrencies, a high-profile DDoS attack or not with a political subtext, the slashdot effect, some half-baked attempts at activism, and a handful arrests. But first things first...

D-Link, Dasan Routers Under Attack In Yet Another Assault

Unpatched D-Link and Dasan GPON router vulnerabilities are being targeted by hackers attempting to build a botnet army, according to research published Friday by eSentire Threat Intelligence. Researchers observed on Thursday a massive uptick in exploit attempts from over 3,000 different source IP...

Ubisoft Games Hit by Massive DDoS Attacks

By Waqas France based video game publisher Ubisoft suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks distributed denial-of-service. As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers including Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and Far Cry 5 were facing connectivity issues. The DDoS attacks began on Tuesday, July...

DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse

Distributed denial of service attacks, bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming domains or specific application infrastructure with massive traffic flows, continue to pose a major challenge to businesses of all stripes. Being knocked offline impacts revenue, customer service and basic...