New Hacker Forum Takes Pro-Ukraine Stance

A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against Russia and Belarus, researchers have found. The Russian-language site, DUMPS Forum, has been around since late May, and at first glance...

The Business of Hackers-for-Hire Threat Actors

Today's web has made hackers' tasks remarkably easy. For the most part, hackers don't even have to hide in the dark recesses of the web to take advantage of people any longer; they can be found right in plain sight on social media sites or forums, professionally advertised with their websites, an...

CISA Releases Cybersecurity Toolkit to Protect U.S. Elections

CISA—through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—has released a toolkit of free cybersecurity resources for the election community. The toolkit aims to help state and local government officials, election officials, and vendors enhance the cybersecurity and cyber resilience of U.S. election...

New IoT RapperBot Malware Targeting Linux Servers via SSH Brute-Forcing Attack

A new IoT botnet malware dubbed RapperBot has been observed rapidly evolving its capabilities since it was first discovered in mid-June 2022. "This family borrows heavily from the original Mirai source code, but what separates it from other IoT malware families is its built-in capability to brute...

A Growing Number of Malware Attacks Leveraging Dark Utilities 'C2-as-a-Service'

A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control C2 services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems. "It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack...

Attackers leveraging Dark Utilities "C2aaS" platform in malware campaigns

By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec. Executive Summary Dark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries. It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution,...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

News overview Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. ALtahrea Team, a group targeting NATO and its partners, attacked public transportation websites in Israel and the United Kingdom. Israel s...

Taiwanese President and Top Govt Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks Amid Pelosi visit

By Waqas The DDoS attacks also targeted the countrys largest airport, the Defence and Foreign Ministry. As US House Speaker… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Taiwanese President and Top Govt Sites Hit by DDoS Attacks Amid Pelosi visit...

PR-DNSd - Passive-Recursive DNS Daemon

Passive-Recursive DNS daemon. Quickstart nameserver 127.0.0.1 | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf dig google.com dig -x $dig +short google.com" go get github.com/korc/PR-DNSd sudo setcap capnetbindservice,capsyschroot=ep go/bin/PR-DNSd go/bin/PR-DNSd -upstream 9.9.9.9:53 -listen 127.0.0.1:53 echo...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Eclipse Californium version 2.0.0 to 2.7.2 and 3.0.0-3.5.0 a DTLS resumption handshake falls back to a DTLS full handshake on a parameter mismatch without using a HelloVerifyRequest. Especially, if used with certificate based cipher suites, that results in message amplification DDoS other peer...

CVE-2022-2576

In Eclipse Californium, CVE-2022-2576 affects versions 2.0.0–2.7.2 and 3.0.0–3.5.0. The DTLS resumption handshake can fall back to a full DTLS handshake on parameter mismatch without a HelloVerifyRequest, which, when used with certificate-based cipher suites, enables message amplification that ca...

Largest European DDoS Attack on Record

On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...

Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022

The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...

IoT Botnets Fuel DDoS Attacks – Are You Prepared?

While data breaches and ransomware are still considered among the more significant concern for businesses, the threats sometimes come from a direction we weren’t expecting. Cybercriminals use botnets for various malicious purposes, most significantly for DDoS attacks against targets. The most...

Hackers for Hire: Adversaries Employ ‘Cyber Mercenaries’

A for-hire cybercriminal group is feeling the talent-drought in tech just like the rest of the sector and has resorted to recruiting so-called “cyber-mercenaries” to carry out specific illicit hacks that are part of larger criminal campaigns. Dubbed Atlas Intelligence Group A.I.G., the cybergang...

DDoS App Meant to Hit Russia Infected Android Phones of Ukrainian Activists

By Deeba Ahmed The pro-Ukraine groups thought they were fighting back against Russia with a new DDoS app, but it turns… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS App Meant to Hit Russia Infected Android Phones of Ukrainian Activists...

Russia Creates Malware False-Flag App

The Russian hacking group Turla released an Android app that seems to aid Ukrainian hackers in their attacks against Russian networks. Its actually malware, and provides information back to the Russians: The hackers pretended to be a "community of free people around the world who are fighting...

Russian Hackers Tricked Ukrainians with Fake "DoS Android Apps to Target Russia" — The Hacker News

Russian threat actors capitalized on the ongoing conflict against Ukraine to distribute Android malware camouflaged as an app for pro-Ukrainian hacktivists to launch distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Russian sites. Google Threat Analysis Group TAG attributed the malware to Turla,...

Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai

By Waqas Mantis Botnet launched 3,000 DDoS attacks in one month using only 5,000 small bots after which Cloudflare dubbed… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai...

Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun.top and TheDonald.win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trumps invitation to "be wild" in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same...