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Summer SOTI - DDoS by the numbers
Time for a Change The State of the Internet / Security report has been the home for Akamai's research on DDoS, attack traffic and Internet threats for over three years. While the report has evolved and expanded its scope considerably over that time, the content and how it's presented have only se...
State of the Internet Summer 2018 Attack Spotlight: What You Need To Know
Earlier this year, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack in its history, fueled by a new reflector, memcached. The attack targeted one of our software clients and broke through the 1 Tbps threshold for the first time. Memcached was developed to act as a distributed memory caching system. Since...
Debian DSA-4218-1 : memcached - security update
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2017-9951 Daniel Shapira reported a heap-based buffer over-read in memcached resulting from an incomple...
[SECURITY] [DSA 4218-1] memcached security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4218-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 06, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
[SECURITY] [DSA 4218-1] memcached security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4218-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 06, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!
Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...
IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases
Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari, that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...
IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases
Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari , that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...
Cloudflare Gets Transparent on DNS Resolver Outage
In a testament to transparency, Cloudflare has explained a 17-minute outage on its 1.1.1.1 resolver service last week: It was a glitch in its own systems, not a cyber-incident. The 1.1.1.1 service is a Domain Name System DNS resolver that matches up URLs say, “cloudflare.com” with their...
Liberapay: Missing back-end user input validation can lead to DOS flaw
Hello Team, Usually such kind of reports are out of scope, however I still would like to report you the business logic weakness that should be eliminated, at least from my point of view. Due to missing user input validation it is can lead to application unavailability. Details: During brief revie...
Moodle 3.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (May 2018) - Windows
Moodle CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:moodle:moodle"; ifdescription...
Moodle 3.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (May 2018) - Linux
Moodle CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:moodle:moodle"; ifdescription...
15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer
By Waqas John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer...
CVE-2018-1137
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...
CVE-2018-1137
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...
CVE-2018-1137
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...
Code injection
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...
CVE-2018-1137
An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...
CVE-2018-1137
CVE-2018-1137 affects Moodle 3.x. The issue arises when URLs in portfolios are substituted, allowing an attacker to instantiate any class. This can be exploited by users logged in as guests to launch a DDoS attack. Publicly documented details describe the vulnerability mechanism and impact; no re...
Wicked Botnet Uses Passel of Exploits to Target IoT
Yet another variant of the Mirai botnet has appeared on the scene, but this one has a twist: The code is integrated with at least three exploits that target unpatched IoT devices, including closed-circuit cameras and Netgear routers. It also has ties to a web of other botnets, made for DDoS...