⚡Top Cybersecurity News Stories This Week — Cybersecurity Newsletter

Hey 👋 there, cyber friends! Welcome to this week's cybersecurity newsletter, where we aim to keep you informed and empowered in the ever-changing world of cyber threats. In today's edition, we will cover some interesting developments in the cybersecurity landscape and share some insightful analys...

New Mirai Botnet Variant 'V3G4' Exploiting 13 Flaws to Target Linux and IoT Devices

A new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet has been found leveraging several security vulnerabilities to propagate itself to Linux and IoT devices. Observed during the second half of 2022, the new version has been dubbed V3G4 by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which identified three different...

CVE-2021-3172

The CVE-2021-3172 entry concerns Php-Fusion. The connected sources specify that Php-Fusion versions 9.03.90 through 9.10.00 are affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability exploitable by authenticated users via the Polling feature. The root cause is a DoS condition within the polling mechanism,...

Mirai Variant V3G4 Exploiting IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks

By Waqas The V3G4 malware was caught leveraging several vulnerabilities in IoT devices to spread its infection from July to December of 2022. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai Variant V3G4 Exploiting IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks...

Cloudflare thwarts largest reported HTTP DDoS attack

By Waqas A new record has been set for the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack, exceeding the previous record of 46 million requests per second rps in June 2022. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare thwarts largest reported HTTP DDoS attack...

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID...

Russian Hacker Group Disrupts Relief Efforts for Turkey-Syria Earthquake with DDoS Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Killnet, a Russian hacker group, disrupted relief efforts for the Turkey-Syria earthquake by carrying out DDoS attacks, taking down the websites of NATO Special Operations Headquarters and Strategic...

Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...

A week in security (February 6 - 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004? Florida hospital takes entire IT systems offline after 'ransomware attack' Introducing Malwarebytes Mobile Security for...

CVE-2023-0800

CVE-2023-0800 affects LibTIFF 4.4.0. There is an out-of-bounds write in tiffcrop.c at line 3502, exploitable via a crafted TIFF file to cause a denial-of-service. The fix is available in the commit 33aee127 for those building LibTIFF from source. Connected advisories consistently reference this C...

KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA says it helped dozens of hospitals...

Tor Network Hit By a Series of Ongoing DDoS Attacks

By Habiba Rashid Has your Tor browser been slow for the past few months? Well, you are not alone; the ongoing DDoS attacks on the Tor network are keeping it slow worldwide. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tor Network Hit By a Series of Ongoing DDoS Attacks...

GHSA-P2GM-FFR3-W2XW Nervos CKB vulnerable to low-resource flood DDoS attacks through network message

Workarounds forbid request genesis through network request forbid requesting duplicate data through network request...

Nervos CKB vulnerable to low-resource flood DDoS attacks through network message

Workarounds forbid request genesis through network request forbid requesting duplicate data through network request...

List of Proxy IPs Exposed to Block Killnet’s DDoS Bots

By Waqas Kallnet is a pro-Russian group known for targeting hospitals and other critical infrastructure in countries unfriendly to Russia. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: List of Proxy IPs Exposed to Block Killnets DDoS Bots...

A new botnet called the Medusa Botnet is emerging via Mirai Botnet targeting Linux users

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Mirai is a botnet that has been active since 2016 and exploits vulnerabilities in Linux-based networking devices like routers and IoT devices to gain control and perform malicious activities like...

Is Your EV Charging Station Safe? New Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered

Two new security weaknesses discovered in several electric vehicle EV charging systems could be exploited to remotely shut down charging stations and even expose them to data and energy theft. The findings, which come from Israel-based SaiFlow, once again demonstrate the potential risks facing th...

Hospitals Hit by DDoS Attacks as Killnet Group Targets the Healthcare Sector – What You Need to do Now

The increase in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations in the US in the last 48 hours by the Pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet has become a serious concern. These types of attacks are designed to overload a network or system with traffic, making it difficult or impossible for users to access...

CVE-2023-23692

Dell EMC prior to version DDOS 7.9 contains an OS command injection Vulnerability. An authenticated non admin attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary OS commands on the application's underlying OS, with the privileges of the vulnerable...

CVE-2023-23692

CVE-2023-23692 affects Dell PowerProtect Data Domain (DDOS) prior to version 7.9, where an OS command injection vulnerability could allow an authenticated non-admin attacker to run arbitrary OS commands on the underlying system with the vulnerable app’s privileges. The available sources confirm t...