Anonymous Group Takes Down Mossad's Website Over Gaza Conflict

The hacktivist group Anonymous has reportedly taken down the official website of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad against Israel’s military incursion in Gaza, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. The government of Israel has yet to comment on the Mossad hack attack. The...

QuasiBot - Webshell Manager aka HTTP Botnet

QuasiBot is a complex webshell manager written in PHP, which operate on web-based backdoors implemented by user himself. Using prepared php backdoors, quasiBot will work as C&C trying to communicate with each backdoor. Tool goes beyond average web-shell managers, since it delivers useful function...

Phony Googlebots Becoming a Real DDoS Attack Tool

Even an enterprise with the harshest, strictest blocking rules in place is likely to leave the door ajar for Google’s search bot software known as a Googlebot. Googlebots crawl websites collecting data along the way in order to build a searchable index that assures a site will be listed and ranke...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Continue to Spike

Although the average size of a given DDoS attack is going down, the number of attacks at the upper end of the scale is increasing, with researchers at Arbor Networks reporting more than 100 attacks of 100 Gbps in the first half of this year. In order for a DDoS attack to be effective, bad guys us...

17-year-old Arrested for Massive DDoS Attack on Norway’s Financial Sector

The Norwegian police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old for a massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack earlier this week that disabled the websites of major financial institutions and other businesses in the country. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is designed to sabotage,...

SNMP 'GETBULK' Reflection DDoS

The remote SNMP daemon is responding with a large amount of data to a 'GETBULK' request with a larger than normal value for 'max-repetitions'. A remote attacker can use this SNMP server to conduct a reflected distributed denial of service attack on an arbitrary remote host. TRUSTED...

Low: chrony

Issue Overview: 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 ...

PsyBNC 2.3 Oversized Passwords Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570/info PsyBNC is a freely available, open source IRC bouncing server. It is available for the UNIX and Linux operating systems. Under some circumstances, it is possible for a remote user to crash a vulnerable server...

Net Portal Dynamic System <= 5.0 (register users) Denial of Service

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl Type|+ Register multiple users for Denial of Service Vendor url|+ www.npds.org Little description|+ NPDS Net Portal Dynamic System is a Frenchand now English ! GNU dynamic portal Solution|+ None official but you can add a visual confirmation if yo...

hMailServer 5.3.3 IMAP Remote Crash PoC

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: hMailServer 5.3.3 IMAP Remote Crash PoC Date: 10/27/2012 Vendor Homepage: http://hmailserver.com Software Link: http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=backgrounddownloadfile&downloadid=207 Version: hMailServer 5.3.3 - Build 1879 Tested on: -...

mojoportal - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. ''' | / |/ \ /\ | | | | \ | \ / | | | | / \ | | | | | | | |/| | | | |/ /\ | | | | | | | | || / \ || | | | || ||// \/|/ ''' Abysssec Inc Public Advisory Title : mojoportal Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities Affected Version : mojoPortal 2-3-4-3 Discovery :...

Dramatic Drop in Vulnerable NTP Servers Used in DDoS Attacks

While patching of webservers vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug may have stalled, the same cannot be said about repairs to NTP servers that could be leveraged in devastating amplification attacks. A spate of distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS tore through companies in January and...

DNS Flood DDoS Attack Hit Video Gaming Industry with 90 Million Requests per Second

Hackers are leveraging large number of compromised machines a botnet network to carry out massive DNS Flood DDoS attack against a large Video Gaming Industry website, peaking above 110 Gbps. A US based security solutions provider Incapsula, is protecting a famous Video Gaming website from this hi...

Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website

Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands

Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service DDoS attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money. On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

Vulnerabilities in 'All in One SEO Pack' Wordpress Plugin Put Millions of Sites At Risk

Multiple Serious vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous ‘All In One SEO Pack’ plugin for WordPress, that put millions of Wordpress websites at risk. WordPress is easy to setup and use, that’s why large number of people like it. But if you or your company is using ‘All in One SEO...

SNMP Reflection DDoS Attacks on the Rise

The DDoS techniques have massively increased with the attackers becoming more skillful at working around the network security. A massive 300Gbps DDoS attack launched against Spamhaus website almost broke the Internet a year ago and also earlier this year, hackers have succeeded in reaching new...