Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer

By Waqas Threat actors managed to target more than 1,800 IP addresses of a single organization, and the DDoS attack was dispersed at six different locations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer...

Analyzing Attack Data and Trends Targeting Ukrainian Domains

As we continue to monitor the cyber situation in Ukraine, the data we are seeing shows some interesting trends. Not only has the volume of attacks continued rising throughout the war in Ukraine, the types of attacks have been varied. A common tactic of cyber criminals is to run automated exploit...

CVE-2022-33993

Misinterpretation of special domain name characters in DNRD aka Domain Name Relay Daemon 2.20.3 leads to cache poisoning because domain names and their associated IP addresses are cached in their misinterpreted form...

CVE-2022-33993

Misinterpretation of special domain name characters in DNRD aka Domain Name Relay Daemon 2.20.3 leads to cache poisoning because domain names and their associated IP addresses are cached in their misinterpreted form...

CVE-2022-33990

Misinterpretation of special domain name characters in dproxy-nexgen aka dproxy nexgen leads to cache poisoning because domain names and their associated IP addresses are cached in their misinterpreted form...

CVE-2022-32148

Improper exposure of client IP addresses in net/http before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 can be triggered by calling httputil.ReverseProxy.ServeHTTP with a Request.Header map containing a nil value for the X-Forwarded-For header, which causes ReverseProxy to set the client IP as the value of the...

New IoT RapperBot Malware Targeting Linux Servers via SSH Brute-Forcing Attack

A new IoT botnet malware dubbed RapperBot has been observed rapidly evolving its capabilities since it was first discovered in mid-June 2022. "This family borrows heavily from the original Mirai source code, but what separates it from other IoT malware families is its built-in capability to brute...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : go1.18 (SUSE-SU-2022:2672-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2672-1 advisory. Update to go version 1.18.5 bsc1193742: - CVE-2022-32189: encoding/gob, math/big: decoding...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: golang-github-hashicorp-sockaddr-1.0.2-12.fc36

Socket address convenience functions for Go. go-sockaddr is a convenience library that makes doing the right thing with IP addresses easy. go-sockaddr is loosely modeled after the UNIX sockaddrt and creates a union of the family of sockaddrt types see below for an ascii diagram. Library...

PayPal phishing campaign goes after more than just your login credentials

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. The data its after includes government documents like passport, as well as selfie photos. In a nutshell, its an extensive form of information theft, the likes of which could result in someones identi...

Experts Notice Sudden Surge in Exploitation of WordPress Page Builder Plugin Vulnerability

Researchers from Wordfence have sounded the alarm about a "sudden" spike in cyber attacks attempting to exploit an unpatched flaw in a WordPress plugin called Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. Tracked as CVE-2021-24284, the issue is rated 10.0 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: golang-github-hashicorp-sockaddr-1.0.2-11.fc35

Socket address convenience functions for Go. go-sockaddr is a convenience library that makes doing the right thing with IP addresses easy. go-sockaddr is loosely modeled after the UNIX sockaddrt and creates a union of the family of sockaddrt types see below for an ascii diagram. Library...

Secure Mail Issues with Android Push Notifications

SecureMail on android devices was not getting background push notifications, therefore users had to manually open SecureMail to check for email. When examining network traces from the ADC, we observe connections to certain Google owned IP addresses are being blocked...

De-anonymizing ransomware domains on the dark web

By Paul Eubanks. We have developed three techniques to identify ransomware operators' dark websites hosted on public IP addresses, allowing us to uncover previously unknown infrastructure for the DarkAngels, Snatch, Quantum and Nokoyawa ransomware groups.The methods we used to identify the...

Researchers Share Techniques to Uncover Anonymized Ransomware Sites on Dark Web

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the various measures ransomware actors have taken to obscure their true identity online as well as the hosting location of their web server infrastructure. "Most ransomware operators use hosting providers outside their country of origin such as Sweden,...

5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

In the digital era, freedom is inextricably linked to privacy. After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. We have already lost a lot of control over who and what has access to our data, and there are further threats to...

Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)

link-preview-js is vulnerable to server-side request forgery. The vulnerability exists because the getLinkPreview function of index.ts does not properly validate the local IP addresses before redirecting, allowing an attacker to read response data by making an HTTP request to untrusted URLs...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: golang-github-hashicorp-sockaddr-1.0.2-11.fc36

Socket address convenience functions for Go. go-sockaddr is a convenience library that makes doing the right thing with IP addresses easy. go-sockaddr is loosely modeled after the UNIX sockaddrt and creates a union of the family of sockaddrt types see below for an ascii diagram. Library...

Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the "RSOCKS" botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone elses computer...

OSIPs - Gathers All Valid IP Addresses From All Text Files From A Directory, And Checks Them Against Whois Database, TOR Relays And Location

This script scans every file from a given folder recursively, extracts every IPv4 and IPv6 address, filters out the public IP addresses and then queries these IPs against TOR relays, WhoIs service and Location service. It outputs 4 files: a CSV file and a JSON file with all details of the IP...