Anyone can DDOS vesting contract

Handle pauliax Vulnerability details Impact Vest function can be accessed by anyone. It accepts arbitrary beneficiary and pushes new vesting to the array of this beneficiary timelocks. As a malicious actor I can block any user by just invoking vest function with a tiny amount of vest token. The...

12 New Flaws Used in Ransomware Attacks in Q3

A dozen new vulnerabilities were used in ransomware attacks this quarter, bringing the total number of bugs associated with ransomware to 278. That’s a 4.5 percent increase over Q2, according to researchers. Five of the newbies can be used to achieve remote code execution RCE, while two can be us...

DDoS Attacks Shatter Records in Q3, Report Finds

The third quarter saw the sheer volume of distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks surge to several thousand hits per day, signaling a re-distribution of tactics by malicious actors away from cryptomining and toward the use of DDoS as a tool of intimidation, disinformation and straight-up...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2021

News overview Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder found a way to spoof the victims IP address over TCP. To date,...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

HelloKitty is launching a DDoS attack by exploiting known vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The FBI has issued a warning to private businesses about a new feature of the HelloKitty ransomware group aka FiveHands. The Hello Kitty/FiveHands actor UNC2447 employs the double extortion strategy to place undue pressure on...

Researchers Uncover 'Pink' Botnet Malware That Infected Over 1.6 Million Devices

Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details of what they say is the "largest botnet" observed in the wild in the last six years, infecting over 1.6 million devices primarily located in China, with the goal of launching distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and inserting advertisements into...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : dnsmasq (openSUSE-SU-2021:1426-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1426-1 advisory. - A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : dnsmasq (openSUSE-SU-2021:3530-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:3530-1 advisory. - A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : dnsmasq (SUSE-SU-2021:3530-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3530-1 advisory. Update to version 2.86 - CVE-2021-3448: fixed outgoing port used when --server is used with an interface name. bsc1183709 ...

Layer 7 DDoS Attacks: ❗️ Methods and Ways of Mitigation

The web has been the greatest type of development in the 21st century. It has uncovered the whole world to more current prospects and more effective methods of living. Today, we have various sites, online stores, online papers, etc. Essentially everything is online nowadays. Be that as it may, th...

Your Best Defense Against Ransomware: Akamai + Guardicore

For decades, Akamai has been focused on solving tough problems for our customers. We started by addressing the challenges of the “World Wide Wait,” and quickly started to leverage our edge network’s scale, proximity to users, and expert operations staff to mitigate security threats for our...

REvil ransomware gang goes dark after its Tor sites are hacked

By Deeba Ahmed In July 2021 the REvil ransomware group vanished due to mounting US pressure after the Kaseya attack. However, the group was back in September 2021 by carrying out extortion-based DDoS attacks on ITSPs in the UK and Canada/America. The infamous REvil ransomware group has suddenly...

DDoS attacks on VoIP and the urgent need for DDoS protection

VoIP companies have recently been the target of a series of ransom Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks around the globe with UK-based VoIP providers including VoIP Unlimited, and Quebec-based company VoIP.ms being hit by aggressive and sustained attacks destabilizing their infrastructure a...

DDoS booter customers received warning letters by Dutch police

By Waqas Apparently, those who continued using DDoS services after receiving the warning would be prosecuted for a cyber offense. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS booter customers received warning letters by Dutch police...

Microsoft Azure customer hit by 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack

By Waqas Microsoft has confirmed that the DDoS attack against an Azure customer originated from a botnet comprising at least 70,000 compromised devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Azure customer hit by 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack...

Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers

Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. "This is 140 percent higher...

Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS and spam attacks on behalf of paid customer...

Learning how MTU and MSS work is key to using DDoS Protection as a Service

Maximum Transmit Unit MTU and Maximum Segment Size MSS are two important terms you should be familiar with when venturing into the world of networking, especially if you are working with GRE and IPSEC tunnels. And if you are looking to use DDoS Protection as a service, you will need to know how M...

Attack Campaigns Ramp Up for Organizations Down Under

DDoS and AppSec attacks impacting the ANZ region Australia and New Zealand have been in the headlines of late, with several high profile companies seeing prolonged outages and leading to speculation as to whether the region is being specifically targeted? Let’s take a closer look at the types of...