Portmapper Amplification Scanner

This module can be used to discover Portmapper services which can be used in an amplification DDoS attack against a third party. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Portmapper...

Wordpress Crash Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications / + Exploit Title : Wordpress Crash Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer vulnerability + Exploit Author : Ashiyane Digital Security Team + Tested on : Windows - Firefox + Vendor Homepage :...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-366)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

How to Remove KeyRaider Malware that Hacked Over 225,000 iOS Devices

Jailbreaking your device may have got you the best of apps but after reading this you will know what a high price you could have to pay for the jailbreak. Read on… A malware named ‘KeyRaider’ has supposedly stolen user credentials of approximately 225K iPhone users. It has been given this name as...

Six U.K. Teens Arrested for using Lizard Squad's DDoS Tool

Six British teenagers arrested and released on bail on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on websites and services with the help of Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, called Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad is infamous for hacking and knocking down the largest online gaming networks – PlayStation...

BitTorrent Fixes Reflective DDoS Attack Security Flaw

Two weeks ago, we reported how a serious flaw in the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent file sharing protocols could be exploited to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack, allowing lone hackers with limited resources to take down large websites. Good news is that the...

BitTorrent Patches DDoS Vulnerability

BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective denial of service attacks. The issue was revealed in a paper and presentation at the recent USENIX...

GitHub Again Hit by DDoS Cyberattack

Github – the popular code sharing website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – again became a victim of a distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. The attack came just a few months after the popular code repository website GitHub suffered a massive DDo...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Code repository Github mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack, restoring services this morning around 9 a.m. Eastern time. According to a Github status log, connectivity problems began today around 5:30 a.m. with Github declaring it was under a DDoS attack an hour later. A request for...

New Android Vulnerable Lets Hackers Take Over Your Phone

This time Everything is Affected! Yet another potentially dangerous vulnerability has reportedly been disclosed in the Google's mobile operating system platform – Android. Android has been hit by a number of security flaws this month, including: Stagefright vulnerability that affects 950 Million...

RPC Portmapper Reflective DDoS Attacks

A number web hosting providers and businesses in the gaming industry were last month guinea pigs for a new type of amplified DDoS attack. Attackers have figured out how to use Portmapper, or RPC Portmapper, in reflection attacks where victims are sent copious amounts of responses from Portmapper...

Multiple I-O DATA LAN routers vulnerable in UPnP functionality

Overview A wired LAN router NP-BBRS and a wireless LAN router WN-G54/R2 provided by I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. contain a vulnerability in the UPnP functionality. Impact The device may be used in a DDoS attack, as a SSDP reflector. Solution For NP-BBRS: Do not use NP-BBRS The developer has stated that...

JVN#17964918: Multiple I-O DATA LAN routers vulnerable in UPnP functionality

A wired LAN router NP-BBRS and a wireless LAN router WN-G54/R2 provided by I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. contain a vulnerability in the UPnP functionality. Impact The device may be used in a DDoS attack, as a SSDP reflector. Solution For NP-BBRS: Do not use NP-BBRS The developer has stated that the suppo...

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they don’t pay a ransom. The scam is a variation on a theme, th...

IC3 Issues Alert on DDoS Extortion Campaigns

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to U.S. businesses about a rise in extortion campaigns. In a typical incident, a business receives an e-mail threatening a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack to its website unless it pays a ransom. Businesses are warned against...

OpenDNS BGP Stream Twitter Feed

Enterprises in the throes of a denial-of-service attack, or suspicious about the integrity of their Internet traffic, will soon have a free data feed available that cuts through the noise produced by normal Internet routing over BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol. During next month’s Black Hat...

Feds Detail Shutdown of Cybercrime Forum Darkode

Officials worldwide this week culminated an 18-month effort to take down Darkode, a cybercrime forum where hackers fraternized, shared malware, credit card information and more. The campaign, dubbed Operation Shrouded Horizon, resulted in the arrest of 28 hackers and 27 house searches across 18...

UPNPD M-SEARCH - ssdp:discover Reflection Denial of Service

UPNPD M-SEARCH - ssdp:discover Reflection Denial of Service !/usr/bin/perl upnpd M-SEARCH ssdp:discover reflection Copyright 2015 c Todor Donev [email protected] http://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg The SSDP protocol can discover Plug & Play devices, with...

NTPD - MON_GETLIST Query Amplification Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/perl ntp MONGETLIST query amplification ddos Copyright 2015 c Todor Donev [email protected] http://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg A Network Time Protocol NTP Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS that relies...

NTP MON_GETLIST Query Amplification DDoS

!/usr/bin/perl ntp MONGETLIST query amplification ddos Copyright 2015 c Todor Donev [email protected] http://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg A Network Time Protocol NTP Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS that relies...