Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks

IoT botnets and DDoS attacks have prominent lawmakers asking government agencies some probing questions about what can be done. Sen. Mark Warner D-VA on Tuesday sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission—as well as the Federal Trade Commission and Homeland Security—querying among othe...

Security Advisory - Defense Mechanism Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei USG Products

There is a defense mechanism bypass vulnerability in Huawei USG products. Successful exploit could allow an attacker to bypass the anti-DDoS module of the USGs to send massive HTTP packets, possibly causing a denial of service condition on the backend server. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-07050...

Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers

New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn indicates that script kiddies are likely responsible, rather than a politically motivated actor. Researchers at Flashpoint dismissed numerous claims of responsibility that separately linked the attack to the Russian...

How Twitter, Amazon, and others were impacted by last Friday's DDOS attack - and what you might want to do about it.

Our partner, Chertoff Group issued the following advisory. Client Advisory: October 21 distributed denial of service DDoS attack. A major distributed denial of service DDoS attack recently 10/21/16 disrupted Internet communications throughout parts of the United States in several waves, and there...

Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS

Hangzhou Xiongmai said that it will recall millions of cameras sold in the U.S. in response to Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn that kept a number of web-based services such as Twitter, Github and others offline for much of the day. The Chinese manufacturer sells OEM white-label...

Chinese Electronics Firm to Recall its Smart Cameras recently used to Take Down Internet

You might be surprised to know that your security cameras, Internet-connected toasters and refrigerators may have inadvertently participated in the massive cyber attack that broke a large portion of the Internet on Friday. That's due to massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against...

Apple macOS 10.12.1 / iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL Handshake MitM / DoS

Apple macOS 10.12.1/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS Credit: Maksymilian Arciemowicz https://cxsecurity.com/ URL: https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2016100213 --- 0. Description ---- The latest macOS and iOS have weak OCSP validation process which allow attacker to send OCSP...

Apple Mac OS X 10.12/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple macOS 10.12/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS --- 0. Description ---- The latest macOS and iOS have weak OCSP validation process which allow attacker to send OCSP requests up to 200k in name of victim during MiTM attack...

Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers

A botnet of connected things strung together by the Mirai malware is responsible for Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attacks against DNS provider Dyn. The DDoS attacks impacted Internet service on the East Coast of the United States, and were responsible for keeping Dyn and a number of its...

An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today

A massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack against Dyn, a major domain name system DNS provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, PayPal, Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, and Spotify. But ho...

On the Dangers of Skyping and Typing, Fingerprint Warrants, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook briefly talk about the Dyn DDoS attack and the Linux bug Dirty Cow before discussing the dangers of Skyping and typing, the fingerprint warrant story, hiding credit card numbers in images, and more. Show notes: Dyn Confirms DDoS Attack Affecting Twitter, Github, Many...

DYN Confirms DDoS Attack Knocking Out Twitter, Spotify Other Major Sites

Update DNS provider Dyn has confirmed two massive distributed denial of service attacks against its servers Friday impacting many of its customers including Twitter, Spotify and GitHub. The attacks came in two waves, one early Friday morning and a second just a few hours later. “This attack is...

Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline

UPDATE — How an army of million of hacked Internet-connected smart devices almost broke the Internet today. Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service...

Mirai Bots More Than Double Since Source Code Release

The Mirai malware continues to recruit vulnerable IoT devices into botnets at a record pace, one that’s only gone up since the source code for Mirai was made public two weeks ago. Level 3 Communications, a telecommunications company and Internet service provider in Colorado, has identified the...

Ian Dunn: No CAPTCHA ia exist in pages

No CAPTCHA is exist in the "Wordpress-backup-options" and "contact" pages. Due to the fact that the webpage has no CAPTCHA mechanism any attacker can perform DOS/DDOS attack and perform Daniel of Service attack to the server. Links: Wordpress-backup-options page:...

Sierra Wireless Warns Cellular Data Gear Targeted by Mirai Malware

Sierra Wireless is warning customers to change default factory credentials on its AireLink gatway communications gear or risk being infected by Mirai malware. Mirai malware scans the Internet for IoT gear such as DVRs and IP-enabled cameras and other devices that are protected by default or...

12-Year-Old SSH Bug Exposes More than 2 Million IoT Devices

Are your internet-connected devices spying on you? Perhaps. We already know that the Internet of Thing IoT devices are so badly insecure that hackers are adding them to their botnet network for launching Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against target services. But, these connected...

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets

The IoT botnet behind some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic, generating more than one million requests per second in some cases, in order to bring down web applications. The attacks were recorded prior to the release of the source code fuelin...

When DVRs Attack: Post IoT Attack Analysis

Researchers examining the aftermath of last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com and French hosting giant OVH have identified key flaws that contributed significantly in those attacks and have unearthed new details on how the assaults were carried out...

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...