Tag: DDoS
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Vulnerability within TP-Link routers
A vulnerability that could lead to critical status, tracked as CVE-2023-1389, was identified in TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers. The Ballista botnet is currently exploiting this vulnerability, which can spread automatically across the web. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: MintsLoader campaign threat
A cyber campaign has been identified using the MintsLoader malware loader to deliver secondary payloads, such as the StealC information stealer and the legitimate open-source network computing platform, BOINC. This campaign has primarily targeted sectors such as electricity, oil and...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical vulnerabilities in VPNs and routers
Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in multiple tunneling protocols, potentially exposing approximately 4.2 million hosts. These include a wide range of devices such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Internet Service Provider (ISP) home routers, core internet routers, mobile network gateways,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Socks5Systemz botnet compromise
The Socks5Systemz botnet has been revealed as the backbone for the illicit proxy service PROXY.AM, compromising over 85,000 devices globally. This botnet enables cybercriminals to conduct anonymous operations, including fraud, data theft, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Continue to read...
The dawn of real-time defense: security transformation in the 2000s
As part of our 5-part series on the evolution of cybersecurity, check out our third article below that covers how the beginning of the 21st century witnessed a relentless battle between cybercriminals and security experts, fueled by the rapid evolution of...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: HTTP/2 vulnerability
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google announced measures to mitigate unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that utilize an innovative HTTP/2 Rapid Reset technique. In this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory, learn the details of this threat, what the risks are, and...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Significant increase of cyber incidents
This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory sheds light on the recent global events between Israel and Hamas that have caused a surge in cyber incidents from hacker activists, also known as “hacktivists”. These attacks have been experienced on both sides of the...
Tech Time Warp: Why the Panix attack was a wake-up call
In this week’s Tech Time Warp, we take a look at how a work emergency is never good news—and when notice of it comes late on a Friday afternoon, it’s even worse. Especially when the news is that your internet...
Tech Time Warp: How human error leads to July 1997 email outage
This week’s Tech Time Warp looks at how, in a world that’s so utterly reliant on the internet, service outages are hardly uncommon anymore, whether they’re the result of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, like that which caused Microsoft...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Threat actors targeting VoIP provides with DDoS attacks
F5 has released a set of vulnerabilities including 17 high and 1 critical which affect the users of BIG-IP application delivery controller. The vulnerabilities provide malicious actors the ability to deploy crypto mining, ransomware, or other malicious files to the...
