Wikipedia has suffered a major DDoS attack. The attack took place during the weekend. According to Wikipedia’s official statement released on September 7, “Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent…
The Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) protocol could be exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks, security researchers are reporting. What is the WS-Discovery protocol? The WS-Discovery protocol is described as a technical specification that defines a multicast discovery protocol to…
There’s a new piece of advanced backdoor malware that can target both Linux and Windows systems in a secure, previously unseen communication. The backdoor has been dubbed Godlua, as it is Lua-based and “the Lua byte-code file loaded by this…
What is .DDOS files virus? What is Dharma ransomware? Can files encrypted by .DDOS files virus be recovered? Dharma ransomware is back with a new cryptovirus variant. The current version of the Dharma family ransomware encrypts files by appending the…
A known vulnerability dubbed ThinkPHP, which was disclosed and fixed in December last year, has been exploited for botnet propagation by a new Mirai variant, Yowai, a variant of Gafgyt known as Hakai. The discovery comes from Trend Micro, and…
The L0rdix malware is a newly detected hacking tool that is being offered on the hacker underground markets allowing prospective buyers to use it in attack campaigns against Windows computers. It allows individual hackers and groups to use it in…
Bank of Spain was hit by a DDoS attack as a result of which the bank’s website was offline on Monday (August 27). According to the bank’s statement, the attack didn’t have any impact on its operations. Also, communications with…
A security report reveals that the number of DNS Amplification attacks done in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 have doubled. By definition they are a type of DDOS (Distributed denial of service) attacks which are among the most common…
The world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service, Webstresser.org, is now down thanks to a coordinated international operation. The DDoS provider was shut down on Wednesday after a thorough investigation carried out by UK’s National Crime Agency and the Dutch National Police and…
DDoS attacks based on Memcached servers can now be mitigated, researchers say. The mitigation method includes the victim sending a “flush_all” command back to the servers that initiated the attack. This method was suggested few days ago by one of…
Just last week a record-breaking DDoS attack took place – registered at 1.3 Tbps. The target was GitHub, and the attack was based on a flaw in Memcached servers recently made public. It became evident that cybercriminals can exploit Memcached…
The largest so far GGoS attack happened yesterday registered at 1.3 Tbps. The target was GitHub. The attack was based on a flaw in Memcached servers made public just a few days ago. Apparently, cybercriminals can exploit Memcached servers to…
Sunday afternoon Bitfinex once again announced via Twitter that the platform is under heavy DDOS, and that they working to bring it back online. Earlier this month, Bitfinex went through some major DDoS attacks. Let’s have a look at the…
The last time we wrote about the Necurs botnet was in January, when it was used in Locky ransomware distribution operations. Necurs has been primarily used to spread spam emails in order to infect user systems. The botnet usually infected…
The Federal Trade Commission is suing the Taiwanese router production company D-Link because of vulnerabilities in their Wi-Fi routing devices and web cameras. News broke out that D-Link, the notorious maker of wireless routers have several vulnerabilities that could allow…
