‘Matrix’ Hackers Deploy Massive New IoT Botnet for DDoS Attacks

Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a campaign powering a series of large-scale DDoS attacks launched by Matrix, which…...

AndroxGh0st Malware Integrates Mozi Botnet to Target IoT and Cloud Services

The threat actors behind the AndroxGh0st malware are now exploiting a broader set of security flaws impacting various internet-facing applications, while also deploying the Mozi botnet malware. "This botnet utilizes remote code execution and credential-stealing methods to maintain persistent...

Imperva: A Leader in WAAP

Imperva – a Thales company and leading provider of Web Application and API Protection WAAP solutions, is a force to be reckoned with in the cybersecurity landscape. Our comprehensive approach to security, encompassing database security, enterprise application security, bot management, DDoS...

Akamai's Behavioral DDoS Engine: A Breakthrough in Modern DDoS Mitigation

As digital infrastructure grows, so do the threats posed by DDoS attacks. See how the Akamai Behavioral DDoS Engine can keep your business online...

CVE-2024-51500

Meshtastic firmware is a device firmware for the Meshtastic project. The Meshtastic firmware does not check for packets claiming to be from the special broadcast address 0xFFFFFFFF which could result in unexpected behavior and potential for DDoS attacks on the network. A malicious actor could cra...

CVE-2024-51500 Failure to check for packets from the broadcast address allows potential DDoS amplification attack in Meshtastic firmware

Meshtastic firmware is a device firmware for the Meshtastic project. The Meshtastic firmware does not check for packets claiming to be from the special broadcast address 0xFFFFFFFF which could result in unexpected behavior and potential for DDoS attacks on the network. A malicious actor could cra...

CVE-2024-51500 Failure to check for packets from the broadcast address allows potential DDoS amplification attack in Meshtastic firmware

Meshtastic firmware is a device firmware for the Meshtastic project. The Meshtastic firmware does not check for packets claiming to be from the special broadcast address 0xFFFFFFFF which could result in unexpected behavior and potential for DDoS attacks on the network. A malicious actor could cra...

CVE-2024-51500

The CVE-2024-51500 entry affects Meshtastic firmware. Description details that the firmware does not inspect packets from the special broadcast address 0xFFFFFFFF, enabling a malicious actor to craft a broadcast-like packet that amplifies a single message into multiple messages across every node,...

German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat.cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "The platform made such DDoS attacks accessible to a wide range of users, even those...

Cyber Threats That Could Impact the Retail Industry This Holiday Season (and What to Do About It)

As the holiday season approaches, retail businesses are gearing up for their annual surge in online and in-store traffic. Unfortunately, this increase in activity also attracts cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities for their gain. Imperva, a Thales company, recently published its annu...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cups-filters (SUSE-SU-2024:3863-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3863-1 advisory. - CVE-2024-47850: cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets...

openSUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2024:3863-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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 ifdescription...

SUSE-SU-2024:3863-1 Security update for cups-filters

This update for cups-filters fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-47850: cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets bsc1231294 - CVE-2024-47076: Fixed lack of input sanitization in cfGetPrinterAttributes5 bsc1230937...

Medium: cups-filters

Issue Overview: CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and cups-browsed contains network printing functionality including, but not limited to, auto-discovering print services and shared printers. cups-browsed binds to INADDRANY:631, causing it to trust any packet from any source,...

Cyber Threats in Costume: When Attacks Hide Behind a Mask

Introduction As Halloween approaches, the idea of costumes and disguises takes center stage, but the spirit of deception isn’t limited to one night. In the digital world, cyberattacks can also wear masks, concealing their true intentions to slip past defenses. Just as a costume can obscure who’s...

K000148279: CUPS vulnerability CVE-2024-47850

Security Advisory Description CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. The request is meant to probe the new printer bu...

SUSE SLES12: cups-filters / cups-filters-cups-browsed / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3756-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:3756-1 advisory. - CVE-2024-47850: Fixed cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets bsc1231294 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

SUSE-SU-2024:3756-1 Security update for cups-filters

This update for cups-filters fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-47850: Fixed cups-browsed can be abused to initiate remote DDoS against third-party targets bsc1231294...

CVE-2024-47678

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel related to the order of rate limits for ICMP messages. The sequence in which rate limiters are applied potentially allows a side-channel attack, resulting in information disclosure. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently...

Internet Archive attackers email support users: “Your data is now in the hands of some random guy”

Those who hacked the Internet Archive haven't gone away. Users of the Internet Archive who have submitted helpdesk tickets are reporting replies to the tickets from the hackers themselves. Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback Machine, is a digital library that allows users to look at...