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A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. In an advisory […]
The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said in its DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4 published last week. “This surge in cyber attacks […]
Phishing attacks are steadily becoming more sophisticated, with cybercriminals investing in new ways of deceiving victims into revealing sensitive information or installing malicious software. One of the latest trends in phishing is the use of QR codes, CAPTCHAs, and steganography. See how they are carried out and learn to detect them. Quishing Quishing, a phishing […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure. The cumulative susceptibility to this attack is being […]
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,” the company said, calling it a “hyper-volumetric” DDoS […]
WordPress sites are being hacked to display fraudulent Cloudflare DDoS protection pages that lead to the delivery of malware such as NetSupport RAT and Raccoon Stealer. “A recent surge in JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites has resulted in fake DDoS prevent prompts which lead victims to download remote access trojan malware,” Sucuri’s Ben Martin said […]
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones bearing similar characteristics as that of the sophisticated phishing attack against Twilio. The attack, which transpired around the same time Twilio was targeted, came from four phone numbers associated with T-Mobile-issued […]
The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against its users. The most attacked industry verticals […]
Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and […]
Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the “largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record.” “HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing […]
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge […]
linux post-exploitation framework made by linux user Still under active development 中文介绍 check my blog for updates how to use what to expect (in future releases) packer: cryptor + memfd_create packer: use shm_open in older Linux kernels dropper: shellcode injector – python injector: inject shellcode into another process, using GDB port mapping: forward from […]
CPDoS can be used to attack content delivery networks (CDNs) to serve error pages instead of legitimate sites through caching. Freshly termed as a Cache Poisoned Denial of Service (CPDoS) attack, two academics from the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Germany have discovered [PDF] how content delivery networks can be attacked to serve error […]
Popular content delivery network (CDN) service provider Cloudflare has finally launched its free VPN service. As we know, the company has already named it Warp, and now it’s available to the users via Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app for Android and iOS devices. Back in 2018, Cloudflare launched the 1.1.1.1 app to provide one-tap access to its […]
Earlier this year in May, the folks at Offensive Security shipped Kali Linux 2019.2 — the second Kali release of 2019. The biggest feature of 2019.2 was the new Nethunter 2019.2 release that supports more than 50 Android smartphones. Going one step further, the developers have released the third point update of the year in […]
Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today. The security breach particularly affects customers of Imperva’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula, a […]
The infamous messageboard 8chan responsible for spreading hateful content against minorities and people of color has been forced to go offline after hosting company Voxility booted the site off from its server. Voxility’s decision came right after the website security firm Cloudflare announced cutting off its services for 8chan. Cloudflare’s decision came hours after it […]
In a blog post, CEO of security services provider Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, announced that Cloudflare will pull support for 8chan services at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The decision comes after federal authorities discovered that the main suspect in El Paso’s shooting posted a 2,300-word manifesto onto 8chan, prior to going on a killing spree. On […]
If you are visiting a website and it is displaying “502 Bad Gateway” error it is not your fault but an issue with Cloudflare. Update: July 12th, 2019 – Cloudflare has published a detailed report explaining why the service went down. While Cloudflare’s transparency is exemplary, other companies should follow the same path. Cloudflare’s report […]
Only a few days ago we alerted our users about ransomware called vxCrypt which improves your PC’s performance as it encrypts your file. However, another deadly malware called Xwo is the latest ransomware to make your online browsing experience perilous. According to AT&T Alien Labs, Xwo is a different type of ransomware as it doesn’t encrypt your […]
Cloudflare has been working for quite some time on its DNS resolver service called 1.1.1.1 and a mobile app with the same name. Now, the company has announced a free VPN service in its latest update to the 1.1.1.1 mobile app. The encryption service works on a freemium model which will provide a faster internet experience. The company began […]