Tag: Flood
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Fake and Stolen X Gold Accounts Flood Dark Web
A surge of fake or stolen X (Twitter) Gold accounts has been flooding marketplaces and forums both on the surface web and the dark web over …
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Junos OS Flaw Allows Attackers to Flood System and Expose Sensitive Data
Three new vulnerabilities have been discovered in Junos OS: password disclosure, MAC address validation bypass, and Time-of-check …
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Threat Hunt: KillNet’s DDoS HEAD Flood Attacks – cc.py
Executive Summary Killnet is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group based in Russia that has been active since at least 2015. The group …
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What Is a Ping Flood and How to Prevent It?
A ping flood attack, also known as an ICMP flood, is a type of denial-of-service attack in which the threat actor attempts to overwhelm a …
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Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack
Threat actors are flooding the npm open source package repository with bogus packages that briefly even resulted in a denial-of-service …
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Flood of malicious packages results in NPM registry DoS
Attackers are exploiting the good reputation and “openness” of the popular public JavaScript software registry NPM to deliver malware …
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Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links
In what’s a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in an attempt to …
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SYN Flood Explained. How to Prevent this Attack from Taking over your Server
SYN flood is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack in which a threat actor floods a server with several requests, but doesn’t …
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G-Core Labs’ stand-alone solution offers protection against SYN Flood DDoS attacks
G-Core Labs launched a new stand-alone solution to help protect against SYN Flood DDoS attacks. Developed in partnership with Intel, the …
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Disinfo and Hate Speech Flood TikTok Ahead of Kenya’s Elections
Last August the TikTok account @aironixon shared a video intercutting scenes from Netflix’s docuseries How to Become a Tyrant with videos …
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Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment
“It’s really awesome how supportive the community has been through all of this. It gives me hope for our industry which is rife with …
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Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing
The pushers behind the SolarMarker backdoor malware are flooding the web with PDFs stuffed with keywords and links that redirect to the …
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