DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from the last months of 2017, crypto-mining malware is quickly becoming attackers’ favorite modus operandi. In December 2017, 88 percent of all remote code...

How to use NetScaler appliance to avoid Layer 7 DDoS attacks

This article describes how to use a NetScaler appliance to avoid layer 7 DDoS attacks when there is no dedicated device to protect from DDoS attacks...

Coalition, Inc.: Non-Cloudflare IPs allowed to access origin servers

Hello Security Team, Summary: Like report 255978 It is possible to access origin servers served by nginx and not cloudflare. Description: Even though these IP's don't serve a functional version of the app it is possible to enable DDoS attacks by bypassing cloudflare protections. Steps To Reproduc...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2017

News overview In terms of news about DDoS attacks, the last quarter of 2017 was livelier than the previous one. Some major botnets were discovered and destroyed. For instance, early December saw the FBI, Microsoft, and Europol team up to knock out the Andromeda botnet, in operation since 2011. In...

JenX Botnet Has Grand Theft Auto Hook

Researchers at Radware have discovered a new botnet that uses vulnerabilities linked with the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect IoT devices. Satori is a derivative of Mirai, the notorious botnet that in 2016 infamously managed to take down Dyn, a D...

Survey: APIs a Growing Cybersecurity Risk

Like a lot of people, your mobile phone number is probably easily accessible to anyone with a bit of searching. Imagine if someone could take this number and your name and gain access to your mobile phone account including billing, email address and phone IMSI. Or maybe someone hacked into one of...

Presenting: Malwarebytes Labs 2017 State of Malware Report

2017 was a tumultuous year in politics, media, gender, race—and cybersecurity didn’t beat the rap. Last year was full of twists and turns in the cybercrime world, with major outbreaks, new infection methods, and the evolution of the cryptocurrency crime industry. In aiming to make sense of the...

Expert: IoT Botnets the Work of a ‘Vast Minority’

In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments and guilty pleas by three men in the United States responsible for creating and using Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly-secured "Internet of Things" or IoT devices like security cameras and digital video recorders f...

January 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NFL” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 22, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Strategic Cyber Ventures...

January 22, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NFL” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 22, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Strategic Cyber Ventures...

January 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “San Francisco” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 18, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: SC Awards Finalists 2018...

January 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “San Francisco” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 18, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: SC Awards Finalists 2018...

Attackers Use Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities to Spread Zyklon Malware

Spam campaigns delivering Zyklon HTTP malware are attempting to exploit three relatively new Microsoft Office vulnerabilities. The attacks are targeting telecommunications, insurance and financial service firms. According to FireEye researchers who identified the campaigns, attackers are attempti...

Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities Used to Distribute Zyklon Malware in Recent Campaign

Introduction FireEye researchers recently observed threat actors leveraging relatively new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office to spread Zyklon HTTP malware. Zyklon has been observed in the wild since early 2016 and provides myriad sophisticated capabilities. Zyklon is a publicly available,...

Hackers Exploiting Three Microsoft Office Flaws to Spread Zyklon Malware

Security researchers have spotted a new malware campaign in the wild that spreads an advanced botnet malware by leveraging at least three recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Dubbed Zyklon, the fully-featured malware has resurfaced after almost two years and primarily found...

Ruby: Integer Underflow @ ossl_cipher_pkcs5_keyivgen

Integer Underflow @ osslcipherpkcs5keyivgen file : ext/openssl/osslcipher.c affected parameter: iterations INFO Generates and sets the key/IV based on a password. call-seq: cipher.pkcs5keyivgenpass, salt = nil, iterations = 2048, digest = "MD5" - nil ANALYSIS iterint in osslcipherpkcs5keyivgen...

Netgear’s New Gaming Router Offers Protection Against DDoS Attacks

By Uzair Amir Netgear LAN Switch and Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router XR500 Offers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Netgears New Gaming Router Offers Protection Against DDoS Attacks...

Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official (Updated)

By Waqas Bitcoin is one of those cryptocurrencies whose value has rapidly This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official Updated...