Mozi IoT Botnet Now Also Targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE Network Gateways

Mozi, a peer-to-peer P2P botnet known to target IoT devices, has gained new capabilities that allow it to achieve persistence on network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE, according to latest findings. "Network gateways are a particularly juicy target for adversaries because they...

How to proactively defend against Mozi IoT botnet

Mozi is a peer-to-peer P2P botnet that uses a BitTorrent-like network to infect IoT devices such as network gateways and digital video records DVRs. It works by exploiting weak telnet passwords1 and nearly a dozen unpatched IoT vulnerabilities2 and it’s been used to conduct distributed...

How to proactively defend against Mozi IoT botnet

Mozi is a peer-to-peer P2P botnet that uses a BitTorrent-like network to infect IoT devices such as network gateways and digital video records DVRs. It works by exploiting weak telnet passwords1 and nearly a dozen unpatched IoT vulnerabilities2 and it’s been used to conduct distributed...

Human rights watchdog ‘Karapatan’ hit by weeks long DDOS attacks

By Waqas The official website of Karapatan has been suffering a series of DDoS attacks since July 29th and are still ongoing as of yesterday, August 18th. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Human rights watchdog Karapatan hit by weeks long DDOS attacks...

Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021

During his career in the middle of the last century, professional bank robber Willie Sutton made off with an estimated $2 million in stolen money. Urban legend has it that when a journalist asked Sutton why he robbed banks, he replied, “That’s where the money is.” In later interviews, Sutton...

Dogged Persistence -- The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...

Does a VPN Protect You from Hackers?

A virtual private network VPN is the perfect solution for a lot of issues you might experience online- accessing blocked sites, hiding your browsing activity, getting rid of internet throttling, finding better deals, and much more. But does a VPN protect you from hackers? Is your private...

Dogged Persistence—The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...

Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks

Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service DoS amplification attacks against any target, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to date. Detailed by a...

MTN Group: There is no rate limit for SME REGISTRATION PORTAL

Summary: The speed limit for the https://mtngbissau.com/registo/ endpoint has not been implemented. Steps To Reproduce: 1. Go to the https://mtngbissau.com/registo/ 2. fill out the Registration form 3. Send request to Intruder. 4. Set your payloads and start attack. 5. There is no rate-limit...

Check your passwords! Synology NAS devices under attack from StealthWorker

Synology PSIRT Product Security Incident Response Team has put out a warning that it has recently seen and received reports about an increase in brute-force attacks against Synology devices. PSIRT suspects the botnet commonly known as StealthWorker is responsible for this increase in activity...

Hackers Exploiting New Auth Bypass Bug Affecting Millions of Arcadyan Routers

Unidentified threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability to hijack home routers as part of an effort to co-opt them to a Mirai-variant botnet used for carrying out DDoS attacks, merely two days after its public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2021-20090 CVSS...

Home routers are being hijacked using vulnerability disclosed just 2 days ago

The early bird catches the worm. Unless the worm was early enough to hide. On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that was discovered by Tenable was made public. Only two days later, on August 5, Juniper Threat Labs identified some attack patterns that attempted to exploit this vulnerability in the...

5 reasons why depending on your ISP for DDoS protection is a bad idea

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Once thought of as prankish annoyance, DDoS attacks today are often a tool for cybercriminals to...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild...

What is SYN Spoofing or TCP Reset Attack❓

Syn Spoofing or TCP Reset Attack is a type of attack in which attackers send forged TCP RST Reset packets to the host. This is the most common attack on the Internet which is causing a lot of problems. These attacks are mainly performed to shut down the websites which are not working with them...

G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic

G2A.COM is the world's largest marketplace for video games, with thousands of sellers, 24 million customers, and a million transactions a month. It's the first stop for gamers and geeks who are looking for low-priced game keys, activation codes, electronics, merchandise, and more. G2A has grown...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : nextcloud (openSUSE-SU-2021:1068-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1068-1 advisory. - A missing input validation in Nextcloud Server before 20.0.2, 19.0.5, 18.0.11 allows users to store unlimited data in workflow rules...