Flexible DDoS Defense: Bohatei

DDoS defense today relies on expensive and proprietary hardware appliances deployed at fixed locations. This introduces key limitations with respect to flexibility e.g., complex routing to get traffic to these “chokepoints” and elasticity in handling changing attack patterns. We observe an...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit4 'Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module allows remote command execution on an I...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

Internet Root Name Servers DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The attacks happened on Nov. 30 and again on Dec. 1, and each time, massive volumes of traffic, peaking at five million...

WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities

WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities Exploit Title: WIMAX MT711x - Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: ˝Friday, ˝December ˝11, ˝2015 Exploit/Vulnerability Author: Alireza Azimzadeh Milani alimp5 Vendor Homepage: http://www.seowonintech.co.kr/en/ Version: V311149CPE Tested on: Kali-Linux I'm an...

Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise

Experts believe that the success tied to a recent spate of DDoS-for-hire groups may be because many are copycat collectives operating with a shorter lifespan. Researchers with Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based firm that tracks real time threat intelligence, said Monday that they’ve noticed a...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

This module allows remote command execution on an IRC Bot developed by xdh. This perl bot was caught by Conor Patrick with his shellshock honeypot server and is categorized by Markus Zanke as an fBot Fire & Forget - DDoS Bot. Matt Thayer also found this script which has a description of LinuxNet...

Bohatei - Flexible and Elastic DDoS Defense

Bohatei is a first of its kind platform that enables flexible and elastic DDoS defense using SDN and NFV. The repository contains a first version of the components described in the Bohatei paper, as well as a web-based User Interface. The backend folder consists of : an implementation of the...

FreeBSD : moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities (82b3ca2a-8c07-11e5-bd18-002590263bf5)

Moodle Release Notes report : MSA-15-0037 Possible to send a message to a user who blocked messages from non contacts MSA-15-0038 DDoS possibility in Atto MSA-15-0039 CSRF in site registration form MSA-15-0040 Student XSS in survey MSA-15-0041 XSS in flash video player MSA-15-0042 CSRF in lesson...

ProtonMail Back Online Following Six Day DDoS Attack

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is back online today following a crippling six-day attack that saw the company’s ISPs and data centers under siege. Operators behind the service said the site may not always be reachable, as its servers are still under heavy strain and mitigating attack, and tha...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Moodle Release Notes report: MSA-15-0037 Possible to send a message to a user who blocked messages from non contacts MSA-15-0038 DDoS possibility in Atto MSA-15-0039 CSRF in site registration form MSA-15-0040 Student XSS in survey MSA-15-0041 XSS in flash video player MSA-15-0042 CSRF in lesson...

ProtonMail Paid Hackers $6000 Ransom in Bitcoin to Stop DDoS Attacks

The Geneva-based encrypted email service ProtonMail was forced to pay a Ransom of almost $6,000 to stop sustained Denial-of-service DDoS attacks that have knocked its service offline since Tuesday. ProtonMail – a full, end-to-end encrypted email service that launched last year – has been dealing...

ARDT - Akamai Reflective DDoS Tool

Akamai Reflective DDoS Tool Attack the origin host behind the Akamai Edge hosts and bypass the DDoS protection offered by Akamai services. How it works... Based off the research done at NCC: https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/attack/thepentestersguidetoakamai.pdf Akamai boast around 100,00...

ZIB - The Open Tor Botnet

General information and instructions. The Open Tor Botnet requires the installation and configuration of bitcoind, however I neglect to detail this here out of a lack of time. This bot-net is fully undetectable and bypasses all antivirus through running on top of Python27's pyinstaller, which is...

withinsecurity: DDOS using xmlrpc.php

Wordpress blogs that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. The blog at withinsecurity.com has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially used for such an attack against other victim hosts. In order to...

TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

TalkTalk Hacked; 4 Million Credit Card Profiles may have been Stolen

TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based phone and Internet service provider with more than 4 Million customers, has been hacked again, the company announced late Thursday. TalkTalk is informing its 4 million customers that it has fallen victim to a "significant and sustained cyber attack" and it is...

Hacking CCTV Cameras to Launch DDoS Attacks

The connected devices, better known as the Internet of Things, have been attracting the significant interest of, not only users but also cyber criminals that are turning them into weapons for cyber war. Due to the insecure implementation of Internet-connected embedded devices, they are routinely...

Incredible! Someone Just Hacked 10,000 Routers to Make them More Secure

Has anyone ever heard about a "Vigilante-style Hacker," who hacks every possible system to make them more Secure? No. It's not funny, neither a movie story: Reportedly, someone is hacking thousands unprotected Wi-Fi routers everywhere and apparently forcing owners to make them more Secure. Securi...

Zemra Botnet (C2 Web Panel) - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Zemra Botnet CnC Web Panel Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits the CnC web panel of Zemra Botnet which...