DDoS Threats & Security Attacks: DDoS Reports & Cyber Security Threats

Last week Drupal announced a critical vulnerability affecting Drupal version 7 and 8. Drupal is an open source content management software (CMS) written in PHP with almost a million users worldwide.

April 3, 2018 03:00 PM Threat Alert

DNS Water Torture attacks, SSL floods, ransom DoS assaults, Advanced Persistent DoS and application flood attacks – all are happening today. Is your organization prepared to detect and mitigate these threats? Is your organization a “botnet” killer?

April 2, 2018 03:00 PM

A newly discovered botnet targets TCP port 8291 and vulnerable Mikrotik RouterOS-based devices. MikroTik, a Latvian hardware manufacturer, products are used around the world and are now a target of a new propagating botnet exploiting vulnerabilities in their RouterOS operating system, allowing attackers to remotely execute code on the device. Such devices have been making unaccounted outbound winbox connections.

March 26, 2018 03:00 PM Threat Alert

Putinstresser.eu is a recent DDoS-as-a-Service tool and is one of the newest additions to the growing array of low-priced services commonly known as ‘booter’ or ‘stresser’ services. The site illustrates the ease of access these services have reached. It provides different payment options, discovery tools, customer support and a variety of attack vectors for a wide range of customers.

March 18, 2018 03:00 PM Threat Alert

The record-breaking denial-of-service attacks launched against GitHub and other organizations quickly caught the attention of both the security community and the public.

March 11, 2018 03:00 PM Threat Alert

Radware Cloud Malware Protection Service has detected and blocked a new evasive zero-day malware: a new variant of the FormBook malware family.

March 7, 2018 02:00 PM

On February 27, 2018 several organizations began publicly disclosing a trend in UDP amplified attacks utilizing exposed Memcached servers. The Memcached protocol was never intended to be exposed to the Internet and thus did not have sufficient security controls. Because of this exposure, attackers are able to abuse Memcached UDP port 11211 for reflective, volumetric attacks.

March 1, 2018 02:00 PM Threat Alert

On February 5, 2018, an independent researcher disclosed a zero-day WordPress DoS vulnerability that allows application-level denial of service (AppDoS) attacks against websites using the WordPress platform. WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and powers over 29% of the Internet’s sites and blogs.

February 11, 2018 02:00 PM Threat Alert