Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days

Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed. Chinese Qihoo 360's Netlab, whose global DDoS...

Google, PlayStation & NRA suffered DDoS attacks via Memcached servers

By Waqas By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google, PlayStation & NRA suffered DDoS attacks via Memcached servers...

Kill Switch Can Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks Via Memcached Servers

By Waqas Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kill Switch Can Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks Via Memcached Servers...

Beers with Talos EP24: Reflections on DDoS and Bad Authentication Schemes

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 24 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP24 Show Notes: Recorded 3/2/18 - Craig is out this week, but the rest of the crew goes through...

'Kill Switch' to Mitigate Memcached DDoS Attacks — Flush 'Em All

Security researchers have discovered a "kill switch" that could help companies protect their websites under massive DDoS attack launched using vulnerable Memcached servers. Massive Memcached reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor of 50,000 recently resulted in some of...

Medium: memcached

Issue Overview: 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...

Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online

By Waqas For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online...

Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released

Two separate proofs-of-concept PoC exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily. The first DDoS tool is written in C programming language and works with a pre-compiled lis...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant

This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services. The services then unwittingly respond by sending a much larger number of unwanted packets to a target. The best known vectors for these...

Medium: memcached

Issue Overview: 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...

World’s Largest DDoS Attack: US Firm Suffers 1.7 Tbps of DDoS Attack

By Waqas Last week we reported on the world's largest DDoS attack This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: World's Largest DDoS Attack: US Firm Suffers 1.7 Tbps of DDoS Attack...

IoT Security Disconnect: As Attacks Spike, Device Patching Still Lags

As more businesses bring IoT devices onboard they are coming face to face with the security downsides of the IoT boom, researchers say. According to a report by Trustwave released last week, 61 percent of companies surveyed who have deployed some level of connected technology have also had to dea...

1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — ​Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record

The bar has been raised. As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack. Network security and monitoring company Arbor Networks claims that its ATLAS global traffic a...

Week in security (February 26 – March 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained how to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining, we gave an encryption 101 lesson using ShiOne ransomware as a case study, and we offered an explanation about SQL injection. We also released a report on the state of malicious cryptomining from...

Our Exposed World – Old exposures, new attacks

Natasha Hellberg, Senior Threat Researcher FTR With assistance from William Gamazo Sanchez, DSLabs Within the last few days a new player has been introduced into the distribute denial of service DDoS amplification attack world and with it brings the potential for much larger DDoS attacks than wha...

DDoS Attacks Now Launched with Monero Ransom Notes

By Waqas After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Now Launched with Monero Ransom Notes...

CVE-2018-1000115

It was discovered that the memcached connections using UDP transport protocol can be abused for efficient traffic amplification distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. A remote attacker could send a malicious UDP request using a spoofed source IP address of a target system to memcached, causi...

Red Hat Releases Security Guidance for Memcached

Red Hat has released security recommendations to address potential Distributed Denial of Service attacks using Memcached. This misconfiguration could allow an attacker to exploit Memcached services as a reflection and amplification vector, causing unexpected volumes of traffic to be sent to...

Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion

Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which...