FBI sponsored Ragebooter DDoS attack service

A website that can be described as "DDoS for hire" is perfectly legitimate, according to the owner. Malicious sites that offer attack services are not strangers on the Internet, but web sites sponsored by law enforcement is another story altogether. Ragebooter, is one of many sites that accepts...

Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon

Four men accused of launching online attacks under the banner of LulzSec appeared in a London courtroom Wednesday for sentencing. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary have all pleaded guilty to hacking offences. The name Lulzsec is a combination of 'lulz' or 'lols', "LAUGHI...

Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon

Four men accused of launching online attacks under the banner of LulzSec appeared in a London courtroom Wednesday for sentencing. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary have all pleaded guilty to hacking offences. The name Lulzsec is a combination of 'lulz' or 'lols', "LAUGHI...

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous, a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense th...

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous, a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense th...

Brobot Booter Script Suite DDoS tool

The Brobot Booter Script Suite DDoS tool utilizes high bandwidth webservers to generate malicious DDoS traffic. Such methodology allows the attacker to harness more bandwidth with fewer victim machines. Successful exploitation will allow an attacker to use the victim machine for malicious purpose...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

FreeBSD : Joomla! -- XXS and DDoS vulnerabilities (57df803e-af34-11e2-8d62-6cf0490a8c18)

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report : 20130405 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in Voting plugin. 20130403 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering allows possibility of XSS exploit in some circumstances. 20130402 - Core - Information...

Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus

The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...

Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus

The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...

Who Needs a Botnet when you have a 4 Gbps DDoS Cannon?

In recent months the DDoS world has shifted from complex small scale Botnet attacks to much larger network based DDoS attacks, perpetrated largely by hijacked web servers. How many of these hijacked servers are out there remains to be seen. However, Incapsula recently got a very good idea of just...

Self-proclaimed Alleged LulzSec leader arrested by Australian Federal Police

A self-proclaimed leader of hacking group Lulzsec has been arrested in Sydney, know by online name "Aush0k". Australian Federal Police confirmed they arrested the unnamed 24-year-old man from Point Clare yesterday. The police allege that the man compromised and defaced a government website,...

Who Needs a Botnet when you have a 4 Gbps DDoS Cannon?

In recent months the DDoS world has shifted from complex small scale Botnet attacks to much larger network based DDoS attacks, perpetrated largely by hijacked web servers. How many of these hijacked servers are out there remains to be seen. However, Incapsula recently got a very good idea of just...

Joomla! -- XXS and DDoS vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20130405 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in Voting plugin. 20130403 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering allows possibility of XSS exploit in some circumstances. 20130402 - Core - Information...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks. Apparently, someone is...

WordPress Sites Targeted by Mass Brute-force Botnet Attack

US-CERT is aware of an ongoing campaign targeting the content management software WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and web publishing platform based on PHP and MySQL. All hosting providers offering WordPress for web content management are potentially targets. Hackers reportedly are...

Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...