GHSA-9Q7C-QMHM-JV86 Incus Allocation of Resources Without Limits allows firewall rule bypass on managed bridge networks

Summary When using an ACL on a device connected to a bridge, Incus generates nftables rules for local services DHCP, DNS... that partially bypass security options security.macfiltering, security.ipv4filtering and security.ipv6filtering. This can lead to DHCP pool exhaustion and opens the door for...

Webinar: Learn How to Stop Encrypted Attacks Before They Cost You Millions

Ransomware isn't slowing down—it's getting smarter. Encryption, designed to keep our online lives secure, is now being weaponized by cybercriminals to hide malware, steal data, and avoid detection. The result? A 10.3% surge in encrypted attacks over the past year and some of the most shocking...

WPAD.dat File Server

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'WPAD.dat File Server', 'Description' = %q This module generates a valid wpad.dat file for WPAD mitm attacks. Usually this module is used in...

It’s always DNS, here’s why…

Introduction Theres an old adage in network and Internet support: When something breaks in any network "it was DNS". Sadly its usually true. …or at least it is when you have certain timeouts, or when a company you used to work for moves from the stable Unix based DNS to a Windows based one and th...

Top MSPs challenges in 2021

If one searches for ‘the top MSP challenges’ between 2017 and 2020, there are mainly five things that are more likely to emerge from the search results: adopting cloud-based solutions, sales margins, satisfying complex client’s needs, employee turnover, and the scalability of the IT security...

Why should you worry about DNS attacks?

Domain Name System DNS is a very basic protocol and service that enables Internet users and network devices to discover websites using human-readable hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses. This article provides a detailed explanation of how DNS works. If the DNS service is attacked or doesn’t...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 24, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Never assume that a malware family is really dead. We’ve done it time and time again with things like Emotet, and Gustuff is proving it...

Threat Source newsletter (June 6)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We hope to see everyone this weekend at the Talos Threat Research Summit in San Diego or throughout the week at Cisco Live. If you’...

Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps

Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...

Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps

Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...

Legislation Proposed to Secure Connected IoT Devices

A Senate bill introduced today would prioritize security in connected devices, requiring providers who sell to the U.S. government to implement measures that would have been an impediment to the IoT botnet-fueled attacks against DNS provider Dyn and webhost OVH. The Internet of Things Cybersecuri...

DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News

DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year's Dyn attacks written about on the Akamai Blog here and here and this week's attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious actors hoping to disrupt a digital...

D-Link DWR-932B LTE router found multiple Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! If you have a similar to the DWR-9 3 2 B LTE D-Link router, don't wait for it to slow a firmware upgrade, or directly to give it is better. Allegedly the D-Link DWR-9 3 2 B LTE has more than 2 0 at risk, including Backdoor accounts, the default certificate, leakage of certificate, the firmware...

CloudFlare Aims to Defeat Massive DDoS Attacks with Virtual DNS

DDoS attacks have been a persistent problem for the the better part of 20 years, and as ISPs and enterprises have adjusted their defenses, attackers have adapted their tactics. One of the more effective tools in the attackers’ arsenal now is the use of botnets to generate massive numbers of DNS...

Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Business Gateways Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2011-002: Vulnerabilities in Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Business Gateways D3G-CCR https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2011-002.txt Published: 2011-02-04 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Comcast http://comcast.com Product:...

New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down. "The New...

WPAD.dat File Server

This module generates a valid wpad.dat file for WPAD mitm attacks. Usually this module is used in combination with DNS attacks or the 'NetBIOS Name Service Spoofer' module. Please remember as the server will be running by default on TCP port 80 you will need the required privileges to open that...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3602

Unbound before 1.3.4 does not properly verify signatures for NSEC3 records, which allows remote attackers to cause secure delegations to be downgraded via DNS spoofing or other DNS-related attacks in conjunction with crafted delegation responses...

Six months later, DNS still taking a hit

It’s been more than six months since Dan Kaminksy detailed the problems he had found lurking in the DNS system, and the coordinated patching effort that followed his discovery was nothing short of extraordinary. A huge percentage of the vulnerable servers were patched before the details of the fl...