Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 Ocata. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 Newton. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Attackers Use UPnP to Sidestep DDoS Defenses

Universal Plug and Play networking protocols have never been a friend of security researchers. On Monday, Imperva gave the InfoSec community another reason to dislike UPnP. In a proof-of-concept Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack, Imperva researchers have devised a way to exploit the UPnP...

New DDoS Attack Method Demands a Fresh Approach to Amplification Assault Mitigation

Amplification attack vectors are some of the most commonly used tools in the DDoS attacker’s arsenal. In the last quarter of 2017, we saw NTP amplification employed in roughly 33 percent of all DDoS assaults against our customers, while DNS and SSDP amplification vectors played a part in 17 perce...

A week in security (May 7 – May 13)

Last week on Labs, we looked at the case of a fake Android AV, an annoying adware that goes by the name of Kuik, the return of threat actors behind the Shopper Stop tech scam, a new Netflix phishing scam, the recent zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and the insufficiency of merely...

Denmark’s largest train operator hit by service crippling DDoS attack

By Waqas Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Denmark's largest train operator hit by service crippling DDoS attack...

Calamp.com Incorrect Privilege Assignment

There is also a full write up on https://medium.com/@evstykas/remote-smart-car-hacking-with-just-a-phone-2fe7ca682162 Vulnerability Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Incorrect Privilege Assignment product: lenderoutlook on...

5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws

Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices. Security researchers from Chinese-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Netlab have...

1-year prison for man behind Blizzard’ World of Warcraft DDoS attacks

By Waqas A Romanian cybercriminal has been sentenced to one year in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 1-year prison for man behind Blizzard' World of Warcraft DDoS attacks...

Want to See What A Live DDoS Attack Looks Like?

We’re fortunate enough to have had Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDoS, and our own Ofer Gayer chat about DDoS attacks and shed some light on the gaps in many people’s understanding of the threats out there. In a new BrightTALK webinar alongside Imperva Senior Product Manager, Ofer, Andy...

Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked "Internet of Things" IoT devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A ne...

Poker tournaments disrupted after DDoS attacks on Americas Cardroom

By Waqas Last year in September Americas Cardroom ACR, a popular online This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Poker tournaments disrupted after DDoS attacks on Americas Cardroom...

A week in security (April 23 – April 29)

Last week, we dug into behavioral biometrics, explored a new crossrider variant, and embraced the power of "no." We also launched another CrackMe challenge, took a deep dive into smart toys, and finished up with a look at digital privacy in the age of IoT. Other news LinkedIn does battle with...

Authorities bust world’s largest DDoS-for-hire service & seize its domain

By Waqas In a large-scale joint operation called "Operation Power Off", the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities bust world's largest DDoS-for-hire service & seize its domain...

FreeBSD : quassel -- multiple vulnerabilities (499f6b41-58db-4f98-b8e7-da8c18985eda)

Gentoo reports : quasselcore: corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream leading to preauth remote code execution. - Severity: high, by default the server port is publicly open and the address can be requested using the /WHOIS command of IRC protocol. - Description: In Qdatastream protocol...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2018

News overview In early January, it was reported that an amateur hacker had come close to pulling off a botnet attack using "improvised" materials. Armed with information gleaned from hacker forums, the DIYer created a Trojan using a zero-day exploit in Huawei routers and released it online. The...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching...

Europol Smacks Down World’s Largest DDoS-for-Hire Market

Criminal fantasy dream-site Webstresser.org, a DDoS-for-hire market believed to be behind at least 4 million cyberattacks around the world, has served up its last internet-paralyzing traffic tsunami. A multi-national investigation led by Europol has led to the arrest of the administrators of the...

Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Spills 25K in Private Investor, Promoter Data

A leaky Mongo database exposed personal information, including scanned passports and driver’s licenses, of 25,000 investors and potential investors tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency, according to researchers. Kromtech Security said that it found the unprotected data on March 30, adding that it...

Police Shut Down World's Biggest 'DDoS-for-Hire' Service–Admins Arrested

In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency NCA and the Dutch Police,...