Discourse 3.1.x < 3.1.0.beta7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Discourse is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse"; ifdescripti...

Discourse < 3.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Discourse is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse"; ifdescripti...

CVE-2023-38684 Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an...

CVE-2023-38684 Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an...

The Power of Proximity: Local DDoS Scrubbing Centers Enhance Security

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APT trends report Q2 2023

For more than six years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have published...

DDoS Botnets Hijacking Zyxel Devices to Launch Devastating Attacks

Several distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnets have been observed exploiting a critical flaw in Zyxel devices that came to light in April 2023 to gain remote control of vulnerable systems. "Through the capture of exploit traffic, the attacker's IP address was identified, and it was determined...

Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks

By Waqas The DDoS attacks have been observed in various regions, including Central America, North America, East Asia, and South Asia. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks...

Google Removes Swing VPN Android App Exposed as DDoS Botnet

By Waqas The developer behind the malicious app, Limestone Software Solutions, has also been banned from the Google Play Store. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Removes Swing VPN Android App Exposed as DDoS Botnet...

DDoS Attacks Soar by 168% on Government Services, StormWall Warns

By Waqas The telecommunications sector also faced a significant onslaught in Q2 2023, becoming the second most targeted industry with an 83% YoY increase in DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Soar by 168% on Government Services, StormWall Warns...

Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Since early Monday morning, the AO3 website has been experiencing intermittent periods of going offline and coming back online. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks...

DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS have been around since before I even knew how to turn a computer on. These types of attacks, I feel, have the same vibe as the term "computer virus" -- something we used to talk about in the...

Surviving the 800 Gbps Storm: Gain Insights from Gcore's 2023 DDoS Attack Statistics

Gcore Radar is a quarterly report prepared by Gcore that provides insights into the current state of the DDoS protection market and cybersecurity trends. This report offers you an understanding of the evolving threat landscape and highlights the measures required to protect against attacks...

CVE-2023-30588

A vulnerability has been identified in the Node.js, where an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as...

(RHSA-2023:116467) Important: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the extra low-latency container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14. See the following advisory...

OpenSSH trojan campaign targets Linux systems and IoT devices

Poorly configured Linux and Internet of Things IoT devices are at risk of compromise from a cryptojacking campaign, according to researchers at Microsoft. The attacks, which involve brute forcing a way into a system, are designed to profit from mining in illicit fashion for cryptocurrency. Once t...

Mirai Botnet Exploits Multiple Flaws in the Latest Campaign

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new variant of the Mirai botnet is actively exploiting vulnerabilities in various devices, aiming to create botnets and launch DDoS attacks. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

Condi Malware Strikes TP-Link Routers for DDoS Rampage

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Condi, a recently discovered malware, utilizes a security vulnerability within TP-Link Archer Wi-Fi routers to ensnare these devices into a botnet specifically designed for launching distributed...

New DDoS Botnet ‘Condi’ Targets Vulnerable TP-Link AX21 Routers

By Deeba Ahmed FortiGuard Labs has identified numerous Condi DDoS botnet samples that exploit other known security flaws, putting unpatched software at a higher risk of being exploited by botnet malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New DDoS Botnet Condi Targets...