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Qakbot botnet infrastructure suffers major takedown
The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies. Operation DuckHunt, as it was codenamed, is possibly the largest US-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Not only did the agenci...
FBI Says Its System Was Exploited to Email Fake Cyberattack Alert
The FBI admitted on Monday morning that an attacker exploited a flaw in how an agency messaging system is configured: a flaw that let an unknown party send out a flood of fake “urgent” warnings about bogus cyberattacks. The Spamhaus Project, a European nonprofit that monitors email spam, detected...
FBI's Email System Hacked to Send Out Fake Cyber Security Alert to Thousands
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Saturday confirmed unidentified threat actors have breached one of its email servers to blast hoax messages about a fake "sophisticated chain attack." The incident, which was first publicly disclosed by threat intelligence non-profit SpamHaus,...
5 high-profile DDoS attacks that should chill you to the bone
Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks are malicious attempts to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Data revealed in the 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report strongly suggests attacks are constantly...
openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2019-495)
This update for mailman to version 2.1.27 fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-0618: Additional protections against injecting scripts into listinfo and error messages pages bsc1099510. These non-security issues were fixed : - The hash generated when...
openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2018-691)
This update for mailman to version 2.1.27 fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-0618: Additional protections against injecting scripts into listinfo and error messages pages bsc1099510. These non-security issues were fixed : - The hash generated when...
Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click
Web site names ending in new top-level domains TLDs like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren't a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, b...
Analyze Web-based Network Traffic: squidmagic
Analyze Web-based Network Traffic squidmagic is a tool designed to analyze a web-based network traffic to detect central command and control C&C servers and Malicious site, using Squid proxy server and Spamhaus. Install Ubuntu 16.04 Clone this repo & execute the script squidmagic ./install.sh ✓...
squidmagic - Analyze a Web-Based Network Traffic to Detect Central Command and Control (C&C) Servers and Malicious Site
squidmagic is a tool designed to analyze a web-based network traffic to detect central command and control C&C servers and Malicious site, using Squid proxy server and Spamhaus. usage squidmagic python squidmagic.py /var/log/squid3/access.log | | | | / |/ | | | | |/ | ' \ / |/ | |/ | \ \ | | || |...
Dutch Hacker Who Almost Broke The Internet Escapes Jail
The Dutch hacker, who in 2013 was accused of launching the biggest cyberattack to date against the anti-spam group Spamhaus, escaped prison Monday even after he was sentenced to nearly 8 months in jail because most of his term was suspended. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, was arrested in April 2013 by...
JShielder - LAMP/LEMP Secure Deployment
JSHielder is an Open Source tool developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux server with little...
Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website
Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...
16-Year-Old Teenager arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever
16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest largest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus. The teenager, whose name is unknown at this point, was arrested by British police in April, but details of his arrest were just leaked to the...
16-Year-Old Teenager arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever
16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest largest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus. The teenager, whose name is unknown at this point, was arrested by British police in April, but details of his arrest were just leaked to the...
Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus
The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...
Suspected Hacker arrested for World's Biggest DDoS attack against Spamhaus
The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March. The attack's bandwidth peaked at over 300Gbps, making it the largest DDoS attack in history. Their target, Spamhaus, is a company...
World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet
The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and...
World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet
The last week has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and...
Open DNS Resolvers Center Stage in Massive DDoS Attacks
For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, let’s just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading Internet service providers. Chances are, all but three or four will tell you “Thanks, but no thanks, ...
Spamhaus DDoS Attacks Triple Size of Attacks on US Banks
So you thought the 100 Gbps distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks were big? Ongoing attacks against Spamhaus have three times the fury and have affected unrelated online services as collateral damage. Attackers from Dutch webhost Cyberbunker are turning on a firehose of bad...