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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 […]
Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new versions shipped last month. This includes – CVE-2022-25647 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A […]
Networking equipment maker Zyxel has released patches for a critical security flaw in its firewall devices that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Researchers from TRAPA Security have been credited with reporting the flaw. “Improper error message […]
Apple on Wednesday rolled out software updates for iOS and iPadOS to remediate a persistent denial-of-service (DoS) issue affecting the HomeKit smart home framework that could be potentially exploited to launch ransomware-like attacks targeting the devices. The iPhone maker, in its release notes for iOS and iPadOS 15.2.1, termed it as a “resource exhaustion issue” […]
The maintainers of OpenSSL have released a fix for two high-severity security flaws in its software that could be exploited to carry out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and bypass certificate verification. Tracked as CVE-2021-3449 and CVE-2021-3450, both the vulnerabilities have been resolved in an update (version OpenSSL 1.1.1k) released on Thursday. While CVE-2021-3449 affects all OpenSSL […]
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers today released an urgent security update—Exim version 4.92.3—after publishing an early warning two days ago, giving system administrators an […]
A man from Utah sentenced 27 months in prison for launching massive DDoS attack against Sony and online gaming companies and its servers. Austin Thompson (23) malicious hacker resides in Utah involved denial-of-service hacking attacks against multiple victims between 2013 and 2014. Austin was Pleaded Guilty in Federal court in last year November for DoS attack and […]
Nvidia GPU display drivers could be on the radar of hackers. According to the latest news, Nvidia is prompting Geforce graphics card owners running Windows OS, to update their drivers. The three severe flaws in Nvidia GPUs were discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah from Fortinet’s FortGuard Labs. The vulnerability could allow hackers to steal information, […]
One of the most constant threats faced by website, web applications, and online infrastructure operators are the so called denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. According to cyber forensics course specialists, threat actors are always trying to develop methods to deploy these kinds of attacks, so it is necessary to stay one step ahead of hackers. Recent research […]
A denial-of-service attack (DoS) to Blizzard Entertainment that lasted the entire weekend and caused a severe delay for some players and prevented others from entering the platform, finally ended last Monday morning, as reported by experts on secure data destruction from the International Institute of Cyber Security. The creators of Overwatch reported problems on their servers the day before […]
Spoofing is often defined as imitating (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect. Not in the real world but also in the computer networking world, spoofing is a common practice among notorious users to intercept data and traffic meant for a particular user. Though there are a lot of spoofing attacks known in […]
Xerosploit is a penetration testing toolkit whose goal is to perform man in the middle attacks for penetration testing purposes. It brings various modules together that will help you perform very efficient attacks. You can also use it to perform denial of service attacks and port scanning. Powered by bettercap and nmap. Dependencies nmap hping3 build-essential ruby-dev libpcap-dev […]
DOS Computer worm SQL Slammer is hitting again. A computer worm is an independent malware computer program that recreates itself to spread to a different computer. Frequently, it uses a computer system to spread itself, depending on security incompetent on the objective computer to get to it. First Appearance SQL Slammer is a PC worm that […]
Short Bytes: Over the last few months, we’ve seen some of the largest DDoS attacks to date and, by far, the most disruptive. You probably didn’t know that DoS and DDoS attacks are so effective because they are based on war strategies that have been fine-tuned over centuries. Read on to learn how, despite being worlds apart […]
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: According to a new research, your BitTorrent client and BitTorrent Sync can be targeted and successfully exploited for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Attackers can use BitTorrent protocols to amplify and reflect traffic using the fellow torrent users using the original bandwidth. The paper named “P2P File-sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to […]
Performing a DOS attack may seem confusing at first , but when you have the right tools and knowledge , it’s quite simple for any user to execute it. In this tutorial i’ll be showing you how to do a Ping flood attack. Firstly what is a DOS/DDOS? A DoS (Denial of Service) is an […]