Researchers Identify 3 Hacktivist Groups Supporting Russian Interests

At least three alleged hacktivist groups working in support of Russian interests are likely doing so in collaboration with state-sponsored cyber threat actors, according to Mandiant. The Google-owned threat intelligence and incident response firm said with moderate confidence that "moderators of...

Six Ways to Have Your eCommerce Site Ready for High-Traffic eShopping Days

The spikes are coming September is nearly over, and Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Halloween, Super Saturday, and the festive season will soon be upon us. With the holidays comes increased sales opportunities, driven by increased traffic. When you’re ready for the spikes, you...

Record DDoS Attack with 25.3 Billion Requests Abused HTTP/2 Multiplexing

Cybersecurity company Imperva has disclosed that it mitigated a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. The "strong attack," which targeted an unnamed Chinese telecommunications company, is said to have lasted for four hours and peake...

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

Denial of service

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

CVE-2022-28204

MediaWiki 1.37.x is affected by CVE-2022-28204 due to a DoS condition in rendering the Special:WhatLinksHere path (target=Property AP31, namespace=1, invert=1). If exploited, it can cause requests to take longer than 30 seconds, creating a DDoS risk. The vulnerability is present before 1.37.2; a ...

CVE-2022-28204

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk...

Record 25.3 Billion Request Multiplexing DDoS Attack Mitigated by Imperva

On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests, setting a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution. While attacks with over one million requests per second RPS aren’t new, we’ve previously only seen them last for several seconds to a few...

GHSA-X996-7QH9-7FF7 Hyperledger indy-node vulnerable to denial of service

Impact An attacker can max out the number of client connections allowed by the ledger that was deployed using guidance provided in the indy-node repository, leaving the ledger unable to be used for its intended purpose. The ledger content will not be impacted by the attack, and the ledger will...

Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer

By Waqas Threat actors managed to target more than 1,800 IP addresses of a single organization, and the DDoS attack was dispersed at six different locations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer...

The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – September 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the State of the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks become more frequent, varied, and sophisticated, it is critical that we regularly communicate the Imperva Threat Research team’s findings and...

Record-Breaking DDoS Attack in Europe

On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai successfully detected and mitigated the now-largest DDoS attack ever launched...

GitLab: No Restriction on password

Note- 1: When I report this issue to another program, the triaged expert said The server is now only hashing a reasonable size password, this should not cause a Denial of Service . Since there does not appear to be evidence of DoS occurring here So they will take action, Only when ddos appear...

6 Top API Security Risks! Favored Targets for Attackers If Left Unmanaged

Security threats are always a concern when it comes to APIs. API security can be compared to driving a car. You must be cautious and review everything closely before releasing it into the world. By failing to do so, you're putting yourself and others at risk. API attacks are more dangerous than...

DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do

Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...

DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do

Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...

Multiple ransomware data leak sites experience DDoS attacks, facing intermittent outages and connectivity issues

By Azim Khodjibaev, Colin Grady, Paul Eubanks. Since Aug. 20, 2022, Cisco Talos has been monitoring suspected distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks resulting in intermittent downtime and outages affecting several ransomware-as-a-service RaaS data leak sites. While the source and origin of th...