Multilayer DDoS Attacks Have Reset Stage for Network Attacks

Back in the dark days of dial-up connectivity, attackers wouldn’t bother compromising home computers as bots to be used in distributed denial-of-service. The lack of bandwidth made PCs persona non grata in the DDoS world. Instead, attackers targeted Web servers, the only machines with the...

Bank DDoS Attacks Using Compromised Web Servers as Bots

A rash of politically and socially motivated distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks has been able to intermittently disrupt online and mobile banking services. The attackers have been able to fire unprecedented amounts of traffic at the likes of Wells Fargo, Bank of Americ...

Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks

Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large amounts of traffic at American banks. If you've been following the news, you are probably awar...

Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks

Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large amounts of traffic at American banks. If you've been following the news, you are probably awar...

[OWASP HTTP Post Tool] DoS Apache Webserver Attack

This Tutorials shows, how you can easily take out an Apache Webserver with one HTTP POST Tool using a std. slow DSL Connection. This is NO Slowloris Attack! Limitations of HTTP GET DDOS attack: - Does not work on IIS web servers or web servers with timeout limits for HTTP headers. - Easily...

Platform Independent Network Packet Generator: Hyenae

Platform Independent Network Packet Generator Hyenae is a highly flexible platform independent network packet generator. It allows you to reproduce several MITM, DoS and DDoS attack scenarios, comes with a clusterable remote daemon and an interactive attack assistant. Features ARP-Request floodin...

2012: What Have We Learned

There’s a natural inclination for people at the end of each year to look back, take stock and try to draw some grand meaning or life lessons out of the events of the past 12 months. This is a particularly risky and difficult thing to do in the security industry, given its inherent unpredictabilit...

Developer expelled by Google Play Store on posting Malicious Android apps

Google Play Developer Console enables developers to easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones. Recently someone posted on Reddit that a developer is trying to spread malware by masquerading infected programs as legitimate software. The account...

Developer expelled by Google Play Store on posting Malicious Android apps

Google Play Developer Console enables developers to easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones. Recently someone posted on Reddit that a developer is trying to spread malware by masquerading infected programs as legitimate software. The account...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it's not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it’s not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

Al-Qaida sites knocked offline before release of 'Salil al-Sawarim 3' movie

U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that, Official websites of Al-Qaida were knocked offline two weeks back and still down due to DDoS attack. According to source, "This is one of the longest disruptions the organization has experienced since it set up its online distribution system in 2006...

Al-Qaida sites knocked offline before release of 'Salil al-Sawarim 3' movie

U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that, Official websites of Al-Qaida were knocked offline two weeks back and still down due to DDoS attack. According to source, "This is one of the longest disruptions the organization has experienced since it set up its online distribution system in 2006...

WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Serves DDoS attack feature

Accunetix a web application security company reported vulnerabilities found in the Wordpress Pingback feature. According to report, Pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. "WordPress has a...

WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Serves DDoS attack feature

Accunetix a web application security company reported vulnerabilities found in the Wordpress Pingback feature. According to report, Pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. "WordPress has a...

WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Could Lead to DDoS Attacks

A pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks if the right script is run, according to web application security firm Acunetix. A pingback is technically something blog owners rely on to track w...

DDoS Attacks on Major US Banks Resurface

UPDATE — The group that claimed responsibility for large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks in September and October has carried out another flurry of attacks that are still ongoing today. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters posted its latest threat on Pastebin,...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threaten American Banks again

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters published a new message on their Pastebin profile , warning of a new round of cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions, beginning this week. In September and October, al-Qassam launched widespread distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against...