Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

Creator of MegalodonHTTP DDoS Botnet Arrested

Last month, the Norway police arrested five hackers accused of running the MegalodonHTTP Remote Access Trojan RAT. The arrests came as part of the joint operation between Norway’s Kripos National Criminal Investigation Service and Europol, codenamed "OP Falling sTAR." According to the United Stat...

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector. Now once...

Chinese Hackers tried to Take Down Tibetan Social Networking Website

Tibet is an area in the Republic of China that has been the point of conflict for many years in China. While China believes that Tibet has been under Chinese rule for many centuries, Tibetans claim that they declared itself an independent republic in 1912. Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy...

VMware ESX / ESXi Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2014-0002)

The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple integer overflow conditions exist in the glibc package in file malloc/malloc.c. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these to cause heap memory corruption by passing large values to the pvalloc,...

JVN#51250073: CG-WLNCM4G may behave as an open resolver

CG-WLNCM4G provided by Corega Inc is a network camera. CG-WLNCM4G contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver. Impact The device may be leveraged for use in a DNS amplification attack and unknowingly become a part of a DDoS attack. Solution Do not use CG-WLNCM4G As of December 25,...

Hackers Plan to Ruin Christmas Eve for Millions of PlayStation and Xbox Live Gamers

Remember the notorious hacker group Lizard Squad that spoiled last Christmas holidays of many game lovers by knocking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline with apparent Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks? But, Will you be able to Play Xbox and PlayStation Game this Christmas?...

WIMAX Modem Multiple Vulnerabilities (Dec 2015) - Active Check

WIMAX Modem is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit4 'Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module allows remote command execution on an I...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module allows remote command execution on an IRC Bot developed by xdh. This perl bot was caught by Conor Patrick with his shellshock honeypot server and is categorized by Markus Zanke as an fBot Fire & Forget - DDoS Bot. Matt Thayer also found this script which has a description o...

Anonymous Declares War On Donald Trump — #OpTrump

After targeting the Islamic State ISIS group in the wake of Deadly terror attacks in Paris, hacktivist group Anonymous has now turned its attention to controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hacktivist group has declared war against Donald Trump following his recent radical spee...

Flexible DDoS Defense: Bohatei

DDoS defense today relies on expensive and proprietary hardware appliances deployed at fixed locations. This introduces key limitations with respect to flexibility e.g., complex routing to get traffic to these “chokepoints” and elasticity in handling changing attack patterns. We observe an...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit4 'Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module allows remote command execution on an I...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

Internet Root Name Servers DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The attacks happened on Nov. 30 and again on Dec. 1, and each time, massive volumes of traffic, peaking at five million...

WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities

WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities Exploit Title: WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: ˝Friday, ˝December ˝11, ˝2015 Exploit/Vulnerability Author: Alireza Azimzadeh Milani alimp5 Vendor Homepage: http://www.seowonintech.co.kr/en/ Version: V311149CPE Tested on: Kali-Linux I'm an...

Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise

Experts believe that the success tied to a recent spate of DDoS-for-hire groups may be because many are copycat collectives operating with a shorter lifespan. Researchers with Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based firm that tracks real time threat intelligence, said Monday that they’ve noticed a...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

This module allows remote command execution on an IRC Bot developed by xdh. This perl bot was caught by Conor Patrick with his shellshock honeypot server and is categorized by Markus Zanke as an fBot Fire & Forget - DDoS Bot. Matt Thayer also found this script which has a description of LinuxNet...