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Guess what? You should patch Exim again!

Hot on the heels of a patch for a critical RCE Exim flaw comes another one that fixes a denial of service (DoS) condition (CVE-2019-16928) that could also be exploited by attackers to pull off remote code execution. With no mitigations available at this time, Exim maintainers urge admins to upgrade to version 4.92.3, which has been released on Sunday. About Exim and the flaw (CVE-2019-16928) According to E-Soft, Exim is the most widely used … More ? The post Guess what? You should patch Exim again! appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Time to spin the wheel of pwnage! This week, malware can infect your…. Android set-top box!

IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things malware.…

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The changing face of DDoS attacks: Degraded performance instead of total takedown

The number of DDoS attacks might be getting higher, but they are not all massive nor do they always trigger DDoS defenses. In fact, small-scale DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, according to new research from Neustar’s SOC. According to the company’s Q2 2019 Cyber Threats and Trends report, between April and June of this year, over 75 percent of all attacks mitigated by Neustar were 5 Gbps or less, while large attacks … More ? The post The changing face of DDoS attacks: Degraded performance instead of total takedown appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size

Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced significant enhancements to the Imperva Application Security portfolio, now offering targeted protection against account takeover (ATO), an industry-leading approach to detecting and blocking malicious attacks targeted at APIs, as well as partnerships with leading API vendors and an unprecedented three-second SLA for mitigating any type of DDoS attack. These capabilities help customers further harden their defenses against rapidly evolving … More ? The post Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Microsoft wants to improve routing security

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, announced that Microsoft has joined the program whose primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system. Routing security is vital to the future and stability of the Internet. Last year alone, there were 12,600 routing outages or incidents such as route hijacking and leaks that led to large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, stolen … More ? The post Microsoft wants to improve routing security appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws

Attackers are actively exploiting recently fixed vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic and the Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence to deliver ransomware, mine cryptocurrency and make the compromised machines participate in DDoS attacks. The Oracle WebLogic attacks CVE-2019-2725 is a deserialization remote command execution vulnerability that affects all Oracle WebLogic versions that have two specific components enabled. It was publicly revealed on April 21 and Oracle published an out-of-band security fix for it on April 25. … More ? The post Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws appeared first on Help Net Security .

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There’s NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic

Firm explains but security folk not appy with clarifications Weird things are afoot with NordVPN’s app and the traffic it generates – Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets’ command-and-control servers.…

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The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining

There is a direct correlation between cryptocurrency and DDoS attacks. As the price of cryptocurrency dropped in 2018, leading to decreased profits from cryptomining, hackers on the black market began to divert prime botnet resources to DDoS attack activities, which increased month by month. DDoS attacks in 2018 In NSFOCUS’ 2018 DDoS Attack Landscape report, NSFOCUS analyzed the threat landscape after a landmark year of technological growth related to cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence … More ? The post The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining appeared first on Help Net Security .

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iovation provides new ways to stop fraud without inconveniencing good customers

iovation, a TransUnion company, released a series of updates to its online fraud prevention and authentication products. The additions increase security for businesses and reduce friction for consumers with features like email and phone number verification, botnet detection, streamlined de-registration of a device used for authentication, and more customization and context insight for authentication requests. The enhanced identification and removal of threats, coupled with increased trust of good consumer devices, advances iovation’s capabilities to use … More ? The post iovation provides new ways to stop fraud without inconveniencing good customers appeared first on Help Net Security .

IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks

IoT devices in synchronised attacks on targets represent a growing part of global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) weapon arsenals. There is a significant potential for attackers to use an IoT-related protocol, the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), deployed on IoT devices to marshal attacks. The A10 Networks report on the state of DDoS weapons in the first quarter of 2019 examines the types of weapons and attacks being used and where they are coming from. … More ? The post IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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