Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers

Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. "This is 140 percent higher...

RDP abused for DDoS attacks

We have talked about RDP many times before. It has been a popular target for brute force attacks for a long time, but attackers have now found a new way to abuse it. Remote access has become more important during the pandemic, with as many people as possible try to work from home. Which makes it...

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description High SECURITY-1682 / CVE-2020-2099 Inbound TCP Agent Protocol/3 authentication bypass Medium SECURITY-1641 / CVE-2020-2100 Jenkins vulnerable to UDP amplification reflection attack Medium SECURITY-1659 / CVE-2020-2101 Non-constant time comparison of inbound...

Preparing the Internet for the Next Mega DDoS Attack

When you think of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack at this point in the age of the internet, you might be thinking they’re old news. But when a multi-million-dollar business can be easily taken offline by an unskilled adversary and a $5 rent-a-DDoS service, I would argue that the issue...

Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals behind distributed denial of service attacks have added a new and highly effective technique to their arsenal to amplify attacks by as much as 51,200x by using misconfigured memcached servers accessible via the public internet. The technique was reported by Akamai, Arbor Networks a...

RSPET - Python Reverse Shell and Post Exploitation Tool

RSPET Reverse Shell and Post Exploitation Tool is a Python based reverse shell equipped with functionalities that assist in a post exploitation scenario. Features Remote Command Execution Trafic masking XORed insted of cleartext; for better results use port 4431 Built-in File/Binary transfer both...