Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website

Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands

Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service DDoS attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money. On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

Vulnerabilities in 'All in One SEO Pack' Wordpress Plugin Put Millions of Sites At Risk

Multiple Serious vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous ‘All In One SEO Pack’ plugin for WordPress, that put millions of Wordpress websites at risk. WordPress is easy to setup and use, that’s why large number of people like it. But if you or your company is using ‘All in One SEO...

SNMP Reflection DDoS Attacks on the Rise

The DDoS techniques have massively increased with the attackers becoming more skillful at working around the network security. A massive 300Gbps DDoS attack launched against Spamhaus website almost broke the Internet a year ago and also earlier this year, hackers have succeeded in reaching new...

FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware

On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...

PointDNS Recovers from Massive DDoS Attack

PointDNS says most of its DNS servers are online again after a massive DDoS attack late last week took down the service provider. A post on the company’s Twitter account on Friday said the provider was adding nameservers and working with network providers to restore service to its customers. Many...

Regulators Planning Cybersecurity Assessments for Banks

A government agency in charge of developing standards for the nation’s banks announced last week that it will work harder to try to identify vulnerabilities in smaller community banks and that it’s planning to better raise awareness when it comes to cyber threats. The Federal Financial Institutio...

Anti-DDoS Services Abused to Carry Out DDoS Attack with 1.5 Billion Requests/Minute

Till Now the Internet was encountering the traditional Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks, where a large number of compromised systems use to flood servers with tremendous amount of bandwidth; but in past few months we have noticed massive change in the techniques of DDoS attack. Hackers...

STRUTS2 S2-0 2 0 patch bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×0 0 background Security researchers noted that the Apache Struts2 vulnerability Bulletin S2-0 2 0, in process repair CVE-2 0 1 4-0 0 9 4 bug fixes program vulnerability exists, resulting patch is completely bypassed. 0×0 1 Analysis Struts2 S2-0 2 0 was added .\.|^ class\.. to filter action...

New vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin for Joomla

Hello 3APA3A! Last year I wrote about multiple vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin. After my informing the developer fixed them, but this year I found new vulnerabilities. These are Denial of Service and Insufficient Anti-automation vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin for Joomla...

Sohu video XSS vulnerability used by hackers Video the user is human flesh-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently availableDDoSprotection firm Incapsula revealed the World No. 2 7 large sites-Sohu oneXSScross-site scripting vulnerabilities become together large-scale botnetDDoSattack the source. ! 1 Pictures from the network The rapid development of Internet, Network Security has been called for...

UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack

UPDATE – UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service DDoS attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day. “Currently, only customers utilizing a segment of UltraDNS Name Server addresses are experiencing resolution latency due to intermitte...

Volume of NTP Amplification Attacks Getting Louder

No security arena is better representative of the cat and mouse game between hackers and defenders than DDoS attacks and prevention/mitigation. Enterprises and service providers have invested heavily in DDoS mitigations in order to keep critical services available. That’s forced hackers to crank ...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc / Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I took of...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

/ Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I took of the code that generates a DDoS, so this code onl...

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service

NTP ntpd monlist Query Reflection - Denial of Service / Exploit Title: CVE-2013-5211 PoC - NTP DDoS amplification Date: 28/04/2014 Code Author: Danilo PC - CVE : CVE-2013-5211 / / I coded this program to help other to understand how an DDoS attack amplified by NTP servers works CVE-2013-5211 I to...

Exploiting Facebook Notes to Launch DDoS

The way Facebook Notes handles HTML image tags could could give an attacker the ability to launch distributed denial of service attacks against external sources, using the power of the massive network to amplify the attack. Facebook Notes is a sort of Tumblr-like internal blogging feature built...

Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly. A Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13 claims that the flaw resides in 'Notes' section of the most popular social networking site - Facebook, that...