New BlackEnergy Crimeware Enhanced to Target Linux Systems and Cisco Routers

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed new capabilities in the BlackEnergy Crimeware weapon that has now ability to hacking routers, Linux systems and Windows, targeting industry through Cisco network devices. The antivirus vendor’s Global Research & Analysis Team released a report...

Bash broken shell vulnerability ShellShock and Transfiguration: for the mail server SMTP attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Bash broken shell vulnerability, ShellShock, CVE-2 0 1 4-6 2 7 1 new using the method again! According to the Internet storm center SANS InternetStorm Center for the latest news: a broken shell vulnerability the latest The use of the method of initiation of a new round of attack is brewing, this...

Spike DDoS Toolkit GET Flood Denial of Service

Spike DDos Toolkit has multiple DDoS payloads, including SYN flood, UDP flood, Domain Name System DNS query flood, and GET floods...

Shellshock Exploits Used Against SMTP Servers at Webhosts

The persistence of the Shellshock vulnerability remains high more than a month after it first surfaced. The latest attacks involved SMTP servers belonging to web hosts, said a report published by the SANS Internet Storm Center. Attackers are using Shellshock exploits targeting the now infamous...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

Reflection DDoS Attacks Using Millions of UPnP Devices on the Rise

After successful in launching reflection and amplification Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks by abusing various protocols such as DNS, NTP and SMTP, hackers are now abusing Simple Service Discovery Protocol SSDP – part of the UPnP protocol standard – to target home and office devices,...

Sandworm APT Team Found Using Windows Zero Day Vulnerability

UPDATE–A cyberespionage team, possibly based in Russia, has been using a Windows zero day vulnerability to target a variety of organizations in several countries, including the United States, Poland, Ukraine and western Europe. The vulnerability, which will be patched today by Microsoft, is...

Amazon Linux AMI : chrony (ALAS-2014-366)

It was reported that the cmdmon protocol implemented in chrony was found to be vulnerable to DDoS attacks using traffic amplification. By default, commands are allowed only from localhost, but it's possible to configure chronyd to allow commands from any address. This could allow a remote attacke...

Arbor: DDoS Attacks Getting Bigger as Reflection Increases

Reflected distributed denial of service DDoS attacks continue to increase, particularly among large scale DDoS events, but it’s a relatively new type of amplification attack which exploits the Simple Service Directory Protocol SSDP that has emerged in a new Arbor Networks report. Data from the...

Yahoo Confirms Infected Servers Unrelated to Shellshock

Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos refuted claims made by a Louisiana security company that a number of Yahoo servers had been compromised by Romanian hackers using Shellshock exploits against the vulnerability in Bash. Stamos said three Yahoo Sports API servers were infected with malware by hackers looking...

Apple Says OS X Safe By Default Against Bash Vulnerability

Apple is trying to soothe users who are anxious about Mac OS X’s exposure to the Bash vulnerability. The company said in a statement to Threatpost that most Apple users are not at risk, and reports have it that Apple is preparing to release a patch. “With OS X, systems are safe by default and not...

Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots

A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...

High-Volume, High-Rate DDoS Attacks Persist

As expected, the numbers back up the continued proliferation of both high-volume and high-rate distributed denial of service attacks – like the ones executed via NTP amplification – over the last few months. NSFOCUS, a security firm that measures DDoS traffic, released its Mid-Year Threat Report...

UFONet - DDoS attacks via Web Abuse (XSS/CSRF)

UFONet - is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using 'Open Redirect' vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: - CWE-601:Open Redirect - OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Main features: --version show program's version number and exit -v,...

FBHT v3.0 - Facebook Hacking Tool (Like flood, Note DDoS attack, FBFriendlyLogout, more...)

FBHTFacebook Hacking Tool is an open-source tool written in Python that exploits multiple vulnerabilities on the Facebook platform The tool provides: 1 Create accounts 2 Delete all accounts for a given user 3 Send friendship requests Test Accounts 4 Accept friendship requests Test Accounts 5...

Google Public DNS Server Spoofed for SNMP based DDoS Attack

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex, and, according to security experts, the next DDoS vector to be concerned about is SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol amplification attacks. Yesterday afternoon, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported...

SNMP DDoS Attack Spoofs Google DNS Server

Update: The SANS Internet Storm Center this afternoon reported SNMP scans spoofed from Google’s public recursive DNS server seeking to overwhelm vulnerable routers and other devices that support the protocol with DDoS traffic. “The traffic is spoofed, and claims to come from Google’s DNS server...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...

Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack

It’s been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by...

Drupal /xmlrpc.php 拒绝服务漏洞 poc

早在2012 年 12 月 17 日一些采用 PHP 的知名博客程序 WordPress被曝光存在严重的漏洞，该漏洞覆盖WordPress 全部已发布的版本（包括WordPress 3.8.1）。该漏洞的 WordPress 扫描工具也在很多论坛和网站发布出来。工具可以利用 WordPress 漏洞来进行扫描，也可以发起DDoS 攻击。经过测试，漏洞影响存在 xmlrpc.php 文件的全部版本。 Pingback 是三种类型的反向链接中的一种，当有人链接或者盗用作者文章时来通知作者的一种方法。可以让作者了解和跟踪文章被链接或被转载的情况。一些全球最受欢迎的 blog 系统比如...