Active Mirai Botnet Variant Exploiting Zyxel Devices for DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a recently patched critical security flaw in Zyxel gear to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-28771 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue relates to a command...

Why Attackers Target the Gaming Industry

Key Takeaways: The gaming industry is a common target for cyberattacks due to its financial success and vast user base. Volumetric DDoS attacks can disrupt service, distract from more serious attacks, and cause financial damage, especially on sites that offer online multiplayer games or real-time...

Dark Frost Botnet Launches Devastating DDoS Attacks on Gaming Industry

A new botnet called Dark Frost has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against the gaming industry. "The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has expanded to encompass hundreds of compromised devices," Akamai security...

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 08 to 14 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified four different...

Update now! Ruckus vulnerability added to CISA’s list of actively exploited bugs

Along with six older vulnerabilities, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency CISA has added a vulnerability in multiple Ruckus wireless products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. This means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agencies need to remediate these...

Lack of method to delete a rewardsDistributor in Comptroller.sol can break rewards distribution permanently

Lines of code Vulnerability details Proof of Concept The storage array rewardsDistributors will be used to distribute the rewards across the hooks in Comptroller.sol, namely preMintHook, preRedeemHook, preBorrowHook, preRepayHook, preSeizeHook and preTransferHook We can see addRewardsDistributor...

Andoryu Botnet Exploits Critical Ruckus Wireless Flaw for Widespread Attack

A nascent botnet called Andoryu has been found to exploit a now-patched critical security flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel to break into vulnerable devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-25717 CVSS score: 9.8, stems from improper handling of HTTP requests, leading to unauthenticated remote...

Op PowerOFF: 13 Domains Linked to DDoS-For-Hire Services Seized

By Habiba Rashid Operation PowerOFF is an effort to dismantle DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide, targeting operators engaged in criminal activities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Op PowerOFF: 13 Domains Linked to DDoS-For-Hire Services Seized...

New AndoryuBot Malware Exploits Ruckus Wireless Flaw for DDoS Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary AndoryuBot targets critical Ruckus Wireless Admin panel vulnerability to infect Wi-Fi access points for use in DDoS attacks, malware supports 12 DDoS attack modes and is marketed through YouTube videos. ...

U.S. Authorities Seize 13 Domains Offering Criminal DDoS-for-Hire Services

U.S. authorities have announced the seizure of 13 internet domains that offered DDoS-for-hire services to other criminal actors. The takedown is part of an ongoing international initiative dubbed Operation PowerOFF that's aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. The...

Why Attackers Target the Government Industry

Key Takeaways: Government sites are full of information attackers want, so it’s crucial to defend them properly. DDoS is an easy tool for attackers to use to disrupt government sites, which can have far-reaching consequences, as we saw early in the Russia-Ukraine war. Remote code execution RCE...

Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI this week seized 13 domain names connected to "booter" services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2023-1732)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS 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 ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2023-1732)

According to the versions of the dnsmasq packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the default configuration of dnsmasq, as shipped with Fedora versions prior to 31 and in all versions Red Ha...

CVE-2023-29552: Abusing the SLP Protocol to Launch Massive DDoS Amplification Attacks

On April 25, 2023, researchers at Bitsight and Curesec jointly discovered a high-severity vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-29552 — in the Service Location Protocol SLP, a legacy Internet protocol. What is SLP protocol? Service Location Protocol SLP is a network protocol designed to simplify th...

LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Config

Remote Access Trojans RATs have taken the third leading position in ANY. RUN's Q1 2023 report on the most prevalent malware types, making it highly probable that your organization may face this threat. Though LimeRAT might not be the most well-known RAT family, its versatility is what sets it...

New SLP Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Launch 2200x Powerful DDoS Attacks

Details have emerged about a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Service Location Protocol SLP that could be weaponized to launch volumetric denial-of-service attacks against targets. "Attackers exploiting this vulnerability could leverage vulnerable instances to launch massive...

Imperva and Kong Partner to Bring API Security to the Gateway for Enhanced API Management

Imperva is delighted to announce a new partnership with Kong Inc, provider of the leading cloud-native API platform, to offer best-in-class API Security to users of the Kong platform. Through the new partnership, Kong Enterprise customers can protect their business applications and data by...

CVE-2023-28976

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine pfe of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS. If specific traffic is received on MX Series and its rate exceeds...