5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws

Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices. Security researchers from Chinese-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Netlab have...

1-year prison for man behind Blizzard’ World of Warcraft DDoS attacks

By Waqas A Romanian cybercriminal has been sentenced to one year in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 1-year prison for man behind Blizzard' World of Warcraft DDoS attacks...

Want to See What A Live DDoS Attack Looks Like?

We’re fortunate enough to have had Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDoS, and our own Ofer Gayer chat about DDoS attacks and shed some light on the gaps in many people’s understanding of the threats out there. In a new BrightTALK webinar alongside Imperva Senior Product Manager, Ofer, Andy...

Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked "Internet of Things" IoT devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A ne...

Poker tournaments disrupted after DDoS attacks on Americas Cardroom

By Waqas Last year in September Americas Cardroom ACR, a popular online This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Poker tournaments disrupted after DDoS attacks on Americas Cardroom...

A week in security (April 23 – April 29)

Last week, we dug into behavioral biometrics, explored a new crossrider variant, and embraced the power of "no." We also launched another CrackMe challenge, took a deep dive into smart toys, and finished up with a look at digital privacy in the age of IoT. Other news LinkedIn does battle with...

Authorities bust world’s largest DDoS-for-hire service & seize its domain

By Waqas In a large-scale joint operation called "Operation Power Off", the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities bust world's largest DDoS-for-hire service & seize its domain...

FreeBSD : quassel -- multiple vulnerabilities (499f6b41-58db-4f98-b8e7-da8c18985eda)

Gentoo reports : quasselcore: corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream leading to preauth remote code execution. - Severity: high, by default the server port is publicly open and the address can be requested using the /WHOIS command of IRC protocol. - Description: In Qdatastream protocol...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2018

News overview In early January, it was reported that an amateur hacker had come close to pulling off a botnet attack using "improvised" materials. Armed with information gleaned from hacker forums, the DIYer created a Trojan using a zero-day exploit in Huawei routers and released it online. The...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching...

Europol Smacks Down World’s Largest DDoS-for-Hire Market

Criminal fantasy dream-site Webstresser.org, a DDoS-for-hire market believed to be behind at least 4 million cyberattacks around the world, has served up its last internet-paralyzing traffic tsunami. A multi-national investigation led by Europol has led to the arrest of the administrators of the...

Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Spills 25K in Private Investor, Promoter Data

A leaky Mongo database exposed personal information, including scanned passports and driver’s licenses, of 25,000 investors and potential investors tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency, according to researchers. Kromtech Security said that it found the unprotected data on March 30, adding that it...

Police Shut Down World's Biggest 'DDoS-for-Hire' Service–Admins Arrested

In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency NCA and the Dutch Police,...

quassel -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo reports: quasselcore: corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream leading to preauth remote code execution. Severity: high, by default the server port is publicly open and the address can be requested using the /WHOIS command of IRC protocol. Description: In Qdatastream protocol each...

Muhstik Botnet Exploits Highly Critical Drupal Bug

Researchers are warning a recently discovered and highly critical vulnerability found in Drupal’s CMS platform is now being actively exploited by hackers who are using it to install cryptocurrency miners and to launch DDoS attacks via compromised systems. At the time of the disclosure, last month...

PT-2018-1757

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MikroTik RouterOS versions prior to 6.42 Description The issue is caused by a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface of MikroTik RouterOS, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote...

Amazon Linux 2 : memcached (ALAS-2018-964)

It was discovered that the memcached daemon listened on UDP port 11211 by default. An attacker could use memcached for UDP amplification denial-of-service attacks. The UDP port has been disabled by default, but can still be enabled. It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP...

What's New with Prolexic

There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...

PT-2018-4014 · Teltonika · Teltonika Rut9Xx

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.04.233 Description: The issue is related to multiple unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerabilities in autologin.cgi and hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization. This...

Website security firm Sucuri hit by large scale volumetric DDoS attacks

By Waqas Another day, another series of DDoS attacks - This time This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Website security firm Sucuri hit by large scale volumetric DDoS attacks...