Imperva Integration With AWS Security Hub: Expanding Customer Security Visibility

This article explains how Imperva application security integrates with AWS Security Hub to give customers better visibility and feedback on the security status of their AWS hosted applications. Securing AWS Applications Cost reduction, simplified operations, and other benefits are driving...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Story of the year: miners

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Threat Predictions for 2019 Cryptocurrency miners that infect the computers of unsuspecting users essentially operate according to the same business model as...

FormAssembly: xmlrpc.php file is enable it will used for (DOS) and bruteforce attack

Wordpress that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. The website https://www.formassembly.com/ has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially used for such an attack against other victim hosts. In order ...

Imperva and Amazon Partner to Help Mitigate Risks Associated With Cloud Migration

Helping our customers reduce the risks associated with migrating to the cloud, and preventing availability and security incidents, has been a major development focus for Imperva over the last several years. Why the partnership matters Although cloud service providers take a host of IT management...

Man who conducted DDoS attacks on Sony, Xbox & EA pleads guilty

By Waqas Austin Thompson, a 23-year-old man from Utah has pleaded guilty to conducting DDoS attacks on gaming giants between 2013 to 2014. Among his targets were companies like EA Origin, Sony's PlayStation Network, Steam, Microsoft's Xbox, Battle.net, and League of Legends, etc. Thompson who use...

Hacker Who DDoSed Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Servers Pleads Guilty

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah pleaded guilty this week to launching a series of denial-of-service DoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between 2013 and 2014. According to a Justice Department DoJ press release, Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll,"...

Hacker Who DDoSed Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Servers Pleads Guilty

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah pleaded guilty this week to launching a series of denial-of-service DoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between 2013 and 2014. According to a Justice Department DoJ press release, Austin Thompson , a.k.a. "DerpTroll,"...

Akamai Identified As A Strong Performer Among Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Providers By Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that today Akamai has been cited as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Providers, Q4 2018 evaluation. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the ZTX framework. Akamai...

'DerpTroll' Faces 10 Years in Prison for DDoSing Gaming Sites as a Teen

After a short but disruptive career knocking popular online gaming sites offline for sport, Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “DerpTroll,” has pleaded guilty to hacking charges. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years prison and a $250,000 fine. Thompson, a 23-year-old Utah resident, made his plea on Tuesda...

HSBC Data Breach Hits Online Banking Customers

International banking giant HSBC has reported that it was breached in October, as a result of a credential-stuffing attack. In a notice PDF filed with the state of California, the bank said that it became aware of some online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4 and 14...

ThreatList: Fewer Big DDoS Attacks in Q3, Overall Rate Holds Steady

When it comes to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, the third quarter of 2018 marked an apparent lull in the action, with fewer huge, multi-day attacks than in previous quarters. Researchers however warn against having a false sense of security: The total number of attacks in the quarter...

DDoS Attacks in Q3 2018

News Overview The third quarter 2018 turned out relatively quiet in terms of DDoS attacks. "Relatively" because there were not very many high-level multi-day DDoS onslaughts on major resources. However, the capacities employed by cybercriminals keep growing year after year, while the total number...

Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks

The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his alm...

DemonBot Fans DDoS Flames with Hadoop Enslavement

A Linux-based DDoS botnet dubbed DemonBot has been found enslaving Hadoop frameworks, using a vulnerability in Hadoop’s resource management tool to infect cloud servers with the botnet malware. Hadoop is a popular open-source framework, usually deployed in cloud environments, that organizations c...

Vesta control panel servers infected with DDoS malware after supply chain attack

By Waqas An open-source hosting panel software provider, Vesta Control Panel VestaCP, has admitted that the company became a victim of a supply chain attack. In an announcement made by VestaCP on its forum, it was revealed that the hacker managed to contaminate the source code of its project with...

New Drupalgeddon Attacks Enlist Shellbot to Open Backdoors

Researchers are warning of a new wave of cyberattacks targeting unpatched Drupal websites that are vulnerable to Drupalgeddon 2.0. What’s unique about this latest series of attacks is that adversaries are using PowerBot malware, an IRC-controlled bot also called PerlBot or Shellbot. Researchers a...

Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing Centers and More

by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...

What's New In Security

It's that time of year again. Here at our global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the days are getting shorter at least in terms of sunrise and sunset. Gone are the 90 degree days of summer; 60 is the new normal. And as we are now in the midst of the final months of the year, Starbucks i...

How Shared Pools of Cloud Computing Power Are Changing the Way Attackers Operate

The transformation from racks of physical hardware hosting sites and services to cloud computing has provided organizations with better flexibility and reduced costs. Attackers have seen the benefits to this model and are also taking advantage of cloud computing to make more money, evade detectio...

Chaturbate: Unrestricted POST request size on roomlogin endpoint

POST requests to endpoint /roomlogin/ are not limited in size. While the main website login endpoint correctly limits the size of request, this endpoint does not. This can be a mean to perform a DOS attack. Steps To Reproduce: 1. has a password-protected stream. 2. Send a large POST request to...