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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Krebs on Security

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston , 22, of Macon, Ga., ” Preston declined to comment for this story.

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DDoS amplify attack targets Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Security Affairs

Citrix confirmed that a DDoS attack is targeting Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) networking equipment. Anyone seen UDP reflect DDoS attacks on #citrix #netscaler lately?? It seems a worldwide UDP:443 (EDT) DDOS attack against #NetScaler #gateway is active since last night. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS).

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RDP abused for DDoS attacks

Malwarebytes

RDP as a DDoS attack vector. The RDP service can be configured by Windows systems administrators to run on TCP (usually port 3389) and/or on the UDP port (3389). million results in a search for “remote desktop” and NetScout identified 33,000 Windows RDP servers that could potentially be abused in this type of DDoS attack.

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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS). Oracle has just released a security update to prevent 2.3 Pierluigi Paganini.

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API Security for the Modern Enterprise

IT Security Guru

An attacker could use an internal API to launch DDoS attacks against companies by sending large volumes of traffic over a short period. Tools like two-factor authentication, rate limiting, and DDoS protection can go a long way in securing APIs. Internal APIs or Private APIs are not Immune. API Security Tools.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

In particular, the academics focused on botnets and DDoS-for-hire or “booter” services, the maintenance of underground forums, and malware-as-a-service offerings. “The way in which everyone looks at cybercrime is they’re all interested in the rockstars and all the exciting stuff,” Clayton told KrebsOnSecurity.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc.

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