Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

Source Code for IoT botnet responsible for World's largest DDoS Attack released Online

With rapidly growing Internet of Thing IoT devices, they have become a much more attractive target for cybercriminals. Just recently we saw a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against the France-based hosting provider OVH that reached over one Terabit per second 1 Tbps,...

Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router

If you own a D-Link wireless router, especially DWR-932 B LTE router, you should get rid of it, rather than wait for a firmware upgrade that never lands soon. D-Link DWR-932B LTE router is allegedly vulnerable to over 20 issues, including backdoor accounts, default credentials, leaky credentials,...

World's largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices

Do you know — Your Smart Devices may have inadvertently participated in a record-breaking largest cyber attack that Internet has just witnessed. If you own a smart device like Internet-connected televisions, cars, refrigerators or thermostats, you might already be part of a botnet of millions of...

On Schneier's DDoS Article, OS X Malware Detection, and Patches

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember162016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Bruce Schneier on Probing Attacks Testing Core Internet Infrastructure

Bruce Schneier talks to Mike Mimoso about information he was given regarding an increase in DDoS and probing attacks targeting companies running core internet infrastructure in an attempt to test their defenses. For some additional context about this conversation, read an article by Schneier on...

Here's How Hackers Can Disrupt '911' Emergency System and Put Your Life at Risk

What would it take for hackers to significantly disrupt the US' 911 emergency call system? It only takes 6,000 Smartphones. Yes, you heard it right! According to new research published last week, a malicious attacker can leverage a botnet of infected smartphone devices located throughout the...

FreeBSD : wolfssl -- DDoS amplification in DTLS (3d1372e1-7822-4fd8-b56e-5ee832afbd96)

Sebastian Ramacher identified an error in wolfSSL's implementation of the server side of the DTLS handshake, which could be abused for DDoS amplification or a DoS on the DTLS server itself. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Open Redirect DDoS Tool: UFONet

Open Redirect DDoS Tool UFONet – is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using ‘Open Redirect’ vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. UFONet abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage ‘zombies’ and to conduct different attacks using; GET/POST, multithreading,...

High Performance DoS Analyzer: FastNetMon

High Performance DoS Analyzer FastNetMon – A high performance DoS/DDoS load analyzer built on top of multiple packet capture engines NetFlow, IPFIX, sFLOW, SnabbSwitch, netmap, PFRING, PCAP. What can we do? We can detect hosts in our networks sending or receiving large volumes of...

BASHLITE Family Of Malware Infects 1 Million IoT Devices

More than one million consumer web-connected video cameras and DVRs are compromised by bot herders who use the devices for DDoS attacks, researchers say. According to Level 3 Threat Research Labs, a small malware family that goes by the names Lizkebab, BASHLITE, Torlus and Gafgyt is behind a web ...

Unsecured DNSSEC Easily Weaponized, Researchers Warn

DNSSEC is not invincible. Researchers this week described how a DNSSEC-based flood attack could easily knock a website offline and allow for the insertion of malware or exfiltration of sensitive data. The intent of Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, is to bolster DNS through a...

Telegram Bot API Cross Site Request Forgery / Denial Of Service

Exploit Title : Telegram Bot API CSRF Vulnerability and use it as a ddoser Exploit Author : 4L1R3Z4 Date : 2016/08/15 Google Dork : No Home Page : https://core.telegram.org/bots/api Category : Web Application Discovered by : 4L1R3Z4 ============================== Description :...

DDoSCoin — New Crypto-Currency Pays Users for Participating in DDoS Attacks

It’s 2016, and now, you can earn some dollars by contributing into well-organized DDoS attack scheme. Do you know while mining Bitcoins you are actually contributing a significant computational power to keep the Bitcoin network running? In Bitcoins, the miners actually build and maintain massive...

EU Struggles to Determine Growing Cost of Cyberattacks

After painstakingly calculating the true cost of cybercrime in the European Union researchers conclude it’s nearly impossible to come up with hard numbers. In a study released this week by the European Union Agency For Network And Information Security ENISA researchers assert that it’s vitally...

Juniper Hotfixes Shut Down IPv6 DDoS Vulnerability

Juniper Networks announced the availability of hotfixes for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a denial of service DoS attack. The hotfixes come more than two months after the vulnerabilities were publicly...

More than 6 0 Non-disclosure vulnerability 2 2 a home router(SOHU router)-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! The affected router list as follows: 1. Observa Telecom AW4062 2. Comtrend WAP-5813n 3. Comtrend CT-5 3 6 5 4. D-Link DSL-2750B 5. Belkin F5D7632-4 6. Sagem LiveBox Pro 2 SP 7. Amper Xavi 7 9 6 8 and 7 9 6 8+ 8. Sagem Fast 1 2 0 1 9. Linksys WRT54GL 1 0. Observa Telecom RTA01N 1 1...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

LizardStresser IoT Botnets Part of 400Gbps DDoS Attacks

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response...

Trains, Planes, Autos Increasingly in Cybercriminal's Bullseye

The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals who see the sprawling multi-billion dollar industry as ripe for financially motivated attacks. According to IBM’s X-Force security team, the systems behind planes, trains and automobiles have now become bigger paydays f...