quassel -- multiple vulnerabilities

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 each...

Muhstik Botnet Exploits Highly Critical Drupal Bug

Researchers are warning a recently discovered and highly critical vulnerability found in Drupal’s CMS platform is now being actively exploited by hackers who are using it to install cryptocurrency miners and to launch DDoS attacks via compromised systems. At the time of the disclosure, last month...

PT-2018-1757

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MikroTik RouterOS versions prior to 6.42 Description The issue is caused by a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface of MikroTik RouterOS, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote...

Amazon Linux 2 : memcached (ALAS-2018-964)

It was discovered that the memcached daemon listened on UDP port 11211 by default. An attacker could use memcached for UDP amplification denial-of-service attacks. The UDP port has been disabled by default, but can still be enabled. It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP...

What's New with Prolexic

There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...

PT-2018-4014 · Teltonika · Teltonika Rut9Xx

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.04.233 Description: The issue is related to multiple unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerabilities in autologin.cgi and hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization. This...

Website security firm Sucuri hit by large scale volumetric DDoS attacks

By Waqas Another day, another series of DDoS attacks - This time This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Website security firm Sucuri hit by large scale volumetric DDoS attacks...

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP): What you need to know

Universal Plug and Play UPnP is a widely used protocol with a decade-long history of flawed implementations across a wide range of consumer devices. In this paper, we will cover how these aws are still present on devices, how these vulnerabilities are actively being abused, and how a...

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a series of distributed denial of service campaigns against financial sector businesses. The attacks utilized at least 13,000 hijacked IoT devices generating traffic volumes up to 30 Gbps, considerably less intense than the original Mirai assaults...

Ddos2Track - An Script To Avoid HTTP Floods Attacks

With this tool you can block HTTP Flood Attacks and analyze them with a honeypot. THE TOOL SEND YOU AN ADVERTISING EMAIL AFTER DETECT A DDOS ATTACK! First start the honeypot server tools/analyze/logger.py. Then start the detector tools/detector/detector.sh in another window. If an attacker attack...

Web Application Firewalls: The Definitive Primer

Firewalls have traditionally been focused on network layer traffic. As attacks have evolved, however, they have climbed the ladder of the Open Systems Interconnection OSI model. Web Application Firewalls WAFs have developed as a result, not only to track network traffic but also to understand...

A week in security (March 19 – March 25)

Last week, we looked at the growing problem of smartphone addiction, how link rot is continually slicing down portions of the web, and the theft of our intellectual property. We also explored the landscape of DDoS problems, and tackled a Stephen Hawking 419 scam. Other news What can only really b...

DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?

Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack can be anything from a small nuisance to something that can break your revenue stream and damage it permanently. A DDoS attack can cripple some online businesses for a period of time long enough to se...

Q4 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today we are releasing our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of 5,055 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q4 2017. In Q4, the number of application layer attacks nearly doubled, just as the number of network...

Название Бота Stepa

Возможности Бота + Админ панель Защита от DDos; + Отправка, перехват и удаление СМС-сообщений; + Отображение ботов по категория; + Есть удобная система событий для каждого бота; + Удобный вывод СМС сообщений в диалоге; + Автокрипт apk через api + Отдельная услуга; + Смена и подмена...

A Mirai Botnet Postscript: Lessons Learned

The fall 2016 Mirai botnet compromised more than 300,000 IoT devices as part of a massive DDoS attack. After the crippling attack, Flashpoint and Akamai worked together with law enforcement to help bring those behind the botnet attack to justice. Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint’...

Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit - DDoS Attack Tool For Sending Forged UDP Packets To Vulnerable Memcached Servers Obtained Using Shodan API

This tool allows you to send forged UDP packets to Memcached servers obtained from Shodan.io Prerequisites The only thing you need installed is Python 3.x apt-get install python3 You also require to have Scapy and Shodan modules installed pip install scapy pip install shodan Using Shodan API This...

LocalTapiola: xmlrpc.php FILE IS enable it will used for bruteforce attack and denial of service

hy https://www.lahitapiolarahoitus.fi is wordpress site 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.lahitapiolarahoitus.fi has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially...

Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue

In this week’s InfoSec news review we’ll dive into cryptomining, get the latest on DDoS amplification, go over recent data breaches, and check out another vendor claiming it can crack iPhones. I, me, mine The freight train that’s cryptomining shows no sign of slowing down, and the cyber security...

This Week in Security News: Rules and Roles

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, The New York Times critiqued the S.E.C.’s new cybersecurity guidance, Github suffered a record-breaking DDoS attack, and Forbes outlined the...