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Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins security update
An update for jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins is now available for OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.14. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...
A week in security (February 5 – February 11)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ivanti urges customers to patch yet another critical vulnerability Ransomware in 2023 recap: 5 key takeaways FBI and CISA publish guide to Living off the Land techniques Warning from LastPass as fake app found on Apple App Store 2 million job seekers targeted by da...
No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack
The widely reported story last week that 1.5 million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false. Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong, and then everyone else ran with it without reading the German text. It was a hypothetical, whi...
How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack
Its not...
DirtyMoe Malware Infects 2,000+ Ukrainian Computers for DDoS and Cryptojacking
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned that more than 2,000 computers in the country have been infected by a strain of malware called DirtyMoe. The agency attributed the campaign to a threat actor it calls UAC-0027. DirtyMoe, active since at least 2016, is capable of...
Anonymous Sudan Claims DDOS Attacks on UAE’s Flydubai Airline
By Waqas Anonymous Sudan alleges that the cyber attack they conducted has crippled the reservation system and other online assets of the targeted entity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Sudan Claims DDOS Attacks on UAEs Flydubai Airline...
From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore's broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to...
Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "notable increase" in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. "The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are designed to evade security...
Anonymous Sudan’s DDoS Attacks Disrupt Network at Israeli BAZAN Group
By Waqas The DDoS attacks occurred on January 17, 2023, and NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring platform, has confirmed the network disruption. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Sudans DDoS Attacks Disrupt Network at Israeli BAZAN Group...
DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023
The environmental services industry witnessed an "unprecedented surge" in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare sai...
A Retrospective on DDoS Trends in 2023 and Actionable Strategies for 2024
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PhantomCrawler - Boost Website Hits By Generating Requests From Multiple Proxy IPs
PhantomCrawler allows users to simulate website interactions through different proxy IP addresses. It leverages Python, requests, and BeautifulSoup to offer a simple and effective way to test website behaviour under varied proxy configurations. Features: Utilizes a list of proxy IP addresses from...
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Mitigation With Imperva WAF
In the modern application landscape, where businesses are constantly under the threat of cyber attacks, one of the most recent to emerge is HTTP/2 Rapid Reset CVE-2023-44487, a type of Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attack. This attack is larger than any previously reported application layer...
Nextcloud: xmlrpc.php &wp-cron.php files are enabled, and will used for (DDOS),(DOS) and broutforce users attack.
The xmlrpc.php and wp-cron.php files were found to be enabled on the target website, which could allow attackers to perform denial of service attacks. Username enumeration via the RSS generator identified several valid usernames. The xmlrpc.php file could be used to cause a DDOS attack by sending...
Warning: Poorly Secured Linux SSH Servers Under Attack for Cryptocurrency Mining
Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "Threat...
Shifting from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We are adding another CAPTCHA vendor and helping our customers migrate from Googles reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha. Why We Are Making This Change We continuously evaluate our security measures to ensure they align with the evolving landscape of threats. After carefully evaluating several different CAPTCHA...
New NKAbuse Malware Exploits NKN Blockchain Tech for DDoS Attacks
A novel multi-platform threat called NKAbuse has been discovered using a decentralized, peer-to-peer network connectivity protocol known as NKN short for New Kind of Network as a communications channel. "The malware utilizes NKN technology for data exchange between peers, functioning as a potent...
Microsoft Busts Black Market for 100s of Millions of Fraudulent Accounts
By Deeba Ahmed The internet's underbelly is thriving on stolen identities and fake accounts, fueling mass phishing campaigns, identity theft rings, and DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Busts Black Market for 100s of Millions of Fraudulent Accounts...
DDoS Attacks on Rappler Linked to Proxy Service Providers in US and Russia
By Waqas On Thursday, November 30, 2023, Rappler, the prominent online media giant based in the Philippines, fell victim to a relentless series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks on Rappler Linked to Proxy Service...
GHSA-99JV-8292-2HPM eventing-gitlab vulnerable to denial of service, caused by improper enforcement of the timeout on individual read operations
Impact The eventing-gitlab cluster-local server doesn't set ReadHeaderTimeout which could lead do a DDoS attack, where a large group of users send requests to the server causing the server to hang for long enough to deny it from being available to other users, also know as a Slowloris...