Russian Hackers Targeted Ukraine Authorities With Supply-Chain Malware Attack

Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. "The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of informatio...

F5 BIG-IP AFM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-13213)

F5 BIG-IP AFM is an advanced firewall product from F5 USA for protection against DDos attacks. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in BIG-IP AFM, which originates from the lack of proper validation of client data by a WEB application. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute...

CS Money: Origin IP found, Cloudflare bypassed

Greetings!, Hope Y'all good and fine. Summary: I would like to report another vulnerability very Similar to my other report in 975991 Due to lack of secure design, I was able to find the origin IPs behind Cloludflare WAF. The IPs I found belong to : 3d.cs.money Description: I was able to find and...

DDoS Attacks Wane in Q4 Amid Cryptomining Resurgence

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks dropped significantly at the end of 2020, down 31 percent in the fourth quarter, according to researchers. The reason? Cybercriminals have switched their efforts and their botnets to cryptomining. According to an analysis from Kaspersky published Tuesday...

Questions to Ask Your Application Security Provider

There is a great deal to consider when evaluating application security providers. Understanding your goals will help. If your goal is vendor consolidation, then selecting those that offer multiple security capabilities over single products may make more sense. And if your goal is out-of-the-box...

CVE-2021-23841

CVE-2021-23841 is described in connected advisories as a NULL pointer dereference in OpenSSL’s X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() when parsing the issuer field. This can crash a process if certificates from untrusted sources are processed and the issuer parsing fails, enabling a potential denial of se...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

News overview Cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for means and methods to make attacks more destructive. In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC application delivery controller devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. The DTLS Datagram Transport Layer Security protoco...

Plex Media Server < 1.21.3.4014 SSDP (PMSSDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack

Plex Media Server installations in a specific and uncommon network position could potentially be used to reflect UDP traffic on certain device-discovery ports as part of a possible DDoS distributed denial-of-service attack. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be...

Android devices caught in Matryosh botnet

Researchers at Netlab have discovered a new botnet that re-uses the Mirai framework to pull vulnerable Android devices into DDoS attacks. The new botnet, which is called Matryosh, is named after the Russian nesting dolls because the encryption algorithm it uses, and the process of obtaining comma...

Cybercriminals Now Using Plex Media Servers to Amplify DDoS Attacks

A new distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS vector has ensnared Plex Media Server systems to amplify malicious traffic against targets to take them offline. "Plex's startup processes unintentionally expose a Plex UPnP-enabled service registration responder to the general Internet, where it ca...

CVE-2020-14312

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

Default configuration

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

CVE-2020-14312

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14312

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

CVE-2020-14312

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

CVE-2020-14312

CVE-2020-14312 affects dnsmasq in Fedora versions prior to 31 and all Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. The issue is a default configuration flaw where dnsmasq listens on any interface and does not enable the local-service option, effectively making it an open resolver accessible from arbitrary ...

CVE-2020-14312

A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where it listens on any interface and accepts queries from addresses outside of its local subnet. In particular, the option local-service is not...

API Security Checks in the Post-Pandemic World

The digital transformation journeys of many enterprises have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2020, IT resources shifted to support WFH policies with mobile and remote productivity solutions, while simultaneously managing multiple datacenter migration projects to the cloud for scale...

Android Devices Prone to New Botnet’s DDoS Onslaught

Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android devices in order to launch distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The botnet is dubbed Matryosh after a Matryoshka Russian nesting doll due to many of its functions being “nested” in...

Watch out as new Matryosh DDoS botnet hits Android devices

By Deeba Ahmed According to Netlab researchers, Matryosh DDoS botnet reuses the Mirai botnet framework. Here's how the malware works. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch out as new Matryosh DDoS botnet hits Android devices...