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...

CVE-2023-28976 Junos OS: MX Series: If a specific traffic rate goes above the DDoS threshold it will lead to an FPC crash

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...

CVE-2023-28976 Junos OS: MX Series: If a specific traffic rate goes above the DDoS threshold it will lead to an FPC crash

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...

Uncommon infection methods—part 2

Introduction Although ransomware is still a hot topic on which we will keep on publishing, we also investigate and publish about other threats. Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the rece...

US, India and China Most Targeted in DDoS Attacks, StormWall Q1 2023 Report

By Waqas DDoS attacks have surged by 47% in Q1 2023, according to a StormWall report. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US, India and China Most Targeted in DDoS Attacks, StormWall Q1 2023 Report...

Supply Chain Attacks and Critical Infrastructure: How CISA Helps Secure a Nation's Crown Jewels

Critical infrastructure attacks are a preferred target for cyber criminals. Here's why and what's being done to protect them. What is Critical Infrastructure and Why is It Attacked? Critical infrastructure is the physical and digital assets, systems and networks that are vital to national securit...

Hacktivists Return with DDoS Attacks, and Their Eyes on European Banks

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Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 CVSS score: 9.8 and CVE-2021-35394 CVSS score: 9.8 to deliver MooBot and ShellBot aka PerlBot, Fortinet...

Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 CVSS score: 9.8 and CVE-2021-35394 CVSS score: 9.8 to deliver MooBot and ShellBot aka PerlBot, Fortinet...

German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based...

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

The United Kingdoms National Crime Agency NCA has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. The warning...