CVE-2023-4418

The CVE-2023-4418 issue affects the SICK LMS5xx family, where a remote unauthenticated attacker can induce a TCP SYN flood to exhaust resources and render the LMS5xx unavailable. Several connected documents confirm a network-based DoS via TCP SYN requests impacting availability, with PT-2023-2914...

Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I had a significant amount of FOMO last week seeing everyone out in Vegas. I was happy to not get conference crud sickness, but it seems like I missed a great time otherwise. But, as anyone who works with me could guess, I was followi...

How to Use NetScaler Appliance to Avoid DDoS Attacks.

How to Use NetScaler Appliance to Avoid DDoS Attacks...

Lolek Bulletproof Hosting Servers Seized, 5 Key Operators Arrested

European and U.S. law enforcement agencies have announced the dismantling of a bulletproof hosting service provider called Lolek Hosted, which cybercriminals have used to launch cyber-attacks across the globe. "Five of its administrators were arrested, and all of its servers seized, rendering...

Hackers Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for Covert Communications

New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access. "Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok," Nic Finn, a senior threat intelligence analyst at GuidePoint Security,...

"Mysterious Team Bangladesh" Targeting India with DDoS Attacks and Data Breaches

A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. "The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel,"...

Discourse < 3.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Discourse is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse"; ifdescripti...

Discourse 3.1.x < 3.1.0.beta7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Discourse is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse"; ifdescripti...

CVE-2023-38684 Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an...

CVE-2023-38684 Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an...

The Power of Proximity: Local DDoS Scrubbing Centers Enhance Security

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APT trends report Q2 2023

For more than six years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have published...

DDoS Botnets Hijacking Zyxel Devices to Launch Devastating Attacks

Several distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnets have been observed exploiting a critical flaw in Zyxel devices that came to light in April 2023 to gain remote control of vulnerable systems. "Through the capture of exploit traffic, the attacker's IP address was identified, and it was determined...

Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks

By Waqas The DDoS attacks have been observed in various regions, including Central America, North America, East Asia, and South Asia. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks...

Google Removes Swing VPN Android App Exposed as DDoS Botnet

By Waqas The developer behind the malicious app, Limestone Software Solutions, has also been banned from the Google Play Store. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Removes Swing VPN Android App Exposed as DDoS Botnet...

DDoS Attacks Soar by 168% on Government Services, StormWall Warns

By Waqas The telecommunications sector also faced a significant onslaught in Q2 2023, becoming the second most targeted industry with an 83% YoY increase in DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Soar by 168% on Government Services, StormWall Warns...

Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Since early Monday morning, the AO3 website has been experiencing intermittent periods of going offline and coming back online. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks...

DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS have been around since before I even knew how to turn a computer on. These types of attacks, I feel, have the same vibe as the term "computer virus" -- something we used to talk about in the...

Surviving the 800 Gbps Storm: Gain Insights from Gcore's 2023 DDoS Attack Statistics

Gcore Radar is a quarterly report prepared by Gcore that provides insights into the current state of the DDoS protection market and cybersecurity trends. This report offers you an understanding of the evolving threat landscape and highlights the measures required to protect against attacks...

CVE-2023-30588

A vulnerability has been identified in the Node.js, where an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as...