#ddos

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached or can slow the server down by purposefully wasting it's time with slow endpoints. Similarly, one can provide whatever HTTP end point they want. This turns the server into a DDOS vector or an anonymizer for the posting of malware and so on.

By Deeba Ahmed The attack seems to be a retaliatory effort from Killnet following the diplomatic tensions between the two countries.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pro-Russia Killnet Group Hit Top Lithuanian websites with Massive DDoS Attacks

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy -- a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals -- suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy's founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

Cyber collective Killnet claims it won’t let up until the Baltic country opens trade routes to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

By Deeba Ahmed The Singaporean identity fraud scammer also tricked Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) into providing $5.4 million worth… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammer Who Used Info of Riot Games’ Co-Founder to Mine Crypto is Jailed

Larger organizations are statistically more at risk, warns Imperva

By Deeba Ahmed The Russian Economic Forum was taking place in St. Petersburg when its proceedings were stalled due to a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: President Putin’s Economic Forum Speech Delayed due to DDoS Attack

A Kremlin spokesman said that the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum accreditation and admissions systems were shut down by a DDoS attack.

Matthew Gatrel has been found guilty of three counts of computer-related crime. His partner in crime, Juan "Severon" Martinez, pleaded guilty before the trial. The post DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday disclosed that it took down the infrastructure associated with a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS in collaboration with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The botnet, operated by a sophisticated cybercrime organization, is believed to have ensnared millions of internet-connected devices, including Internet of Things (