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New research has found that the CONTINUATION frame in the HTTP/2 protocol can be exploited to conduct denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The technique has been codenamed HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood by security researcher Bartek Nowotarski, who reported the issue to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) on January 25, 2024. “Many HTTP/2 implementations do not properly limit or […]
In one of its kind acts, a Utah-based man named Austin Thompson (23) is going to prison for launching DDoS attacks on servers of various gaming companies. The hacker, who goes by the online moniker DerpTrolling, compromised the servers of Microsoft Xbox, Sony Play Station, Quake Live, DOTA2, League of Legends, and Steam between December […]
Short Bytes: A ping packet can also be malformed to perform denial of service attack by sending continuous ping packets to the target IP address. A continuous ping will cause buffer overflow at the target system and will cause the target system to crash. We often use the CMD command “Ping” to mostly check if […]
Short Bytes: A newly discovered flaw in the Arris modems has risked more than 135 million modems to DoS attacks. The flaw allows a hacker to trick the user into clicking a malicious link that could result in the total disruption of the internet service on the network. A new vulnerability has been found in […]