WordPress plugins are under active attack, a new banking trojan is spreading, and phishing and brute-force attacks continue unabated.
Web performance and security firm Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack.
According to Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO, the attack peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Pps). The attack was aimed at an unidentified customer of an unnamed hosting provider that uses Cloudflare services.
Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.
On August 25th 2024, Global Secure Layer mitigated the largest packet rate DDoS attack recorded against our platform
The total number of DDoS attacks during H1 2024 amounted to 830,000, an increase of 46% when compared to H1 2023, according to Gcore.
On July 15, 2024, Akamai prevented one of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks it has ever observed against a major financial services company in Israel.
The highly sophisticated, high-volume attack lasted almost 24 hours.
The attacker deployed larger-than-usual resources, indicating a serious risk for future attacks.
Other Israeli financial institutions reportedly suffered outages and downtimes on the same day, potentially due to the same type of attack and the same aggressor.
TuDoor is a new DNS attack, which could be exploited to carry out DNS cache poisoning, denial-of-service, and resource consuming.
DNS can be compared to a game of chess in that its rules are simple, yet the possibilities it presents are endless. While the fundamental rules of DNS are straightforward, DNS implementations can be extremely complex. In this study, we intend to explore the complexities and vulnerabilities in DNS response pre-processing by systematically analyzing DNS RFCs and DNS software implementations.
The Sykhiv residential area in Lviv was left without hot water and heating as a result of a hacker attack on Lvivteploenergo. This is reported on the company's website.
"The hacker attack disrupted the heat supply management system. Work is underway to restore heating and hot water supply in the Sykhiv residential area. The estimated time of restoration is 21:00," the statement said.
The National Health Laboratory Service is the primary diagnostic service for 80% of the population, and no timeline for its restoration has been determined
Researchers unveil SnailLoad, a new side-channel attack exploiting network latency to infer web activity remotely, achieving up to 98% accuracy in vid
A novel command execution technique dubbed 'GrimResource' uses specially crafted MSC (Microsoft Saved Console) and an unpatched Windows XSS flaw to perform code execution via the Microsoft Management Console.
Okta warns of an "unprecedented" spike in credential stuffing attacks targeting its identity and access management solutions, with some customer accounts breached in the attacks.
RansomHub, which is speculated to have some connection to ALPHV, has stolen 4TB of sensitive data from the beleaguered healthcare company.
As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz package) on Debian sid installations over the last weeks (logins with ssh taking a lot of CPU, valgrind errors).”
At a high level, the attack is split in two pieces: a shell script and an object file. There is an injection of shell code during configure, which injects the shell code into make. The shell code during make adds the object file to the build. This post examines the shell script. (See also my timeline post.)
Automation is making attacks on open source code repositories harder to fight.
Researchers say it's the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads.
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that…
Our work shows that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on DDR4 devices on AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite deployed TRR mitigations. This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems, which greatly increases the attack surface, considering today’s AMD market share of around 36%… Read
Huntress recently detected interesting activity on an endpoint; a threat actor was attempting to establish a foothold on an endpoint by using commands issued via MSSQL to upload a reverse shell accessible from the web server. All attempts were obviated by MAV and process detections, but boy-howdy, did they try!
