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U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan's "powerful DDoS tool," singled out critical infrastructure, corporate networks,

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Iran's APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov'ts

A MOIS-aligned threat group has been using Microsoft Exchange servers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Gulf-state government agencies.

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder Vulnerability Exposes Nodes to Root Access Risk

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Kubernetes Image Builder that, if successfully exploited, could be abused to gain root access under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9486 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been addressed in version 0.1.38. The project maintainers acknowledged Nicolai Rybnikar for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. "A security issue

GHSA-7c4c-749j-pfp2: Admidio Vulnerable to HTML Injection In The Messages Section

### Summary An unsafe deserialization vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the server. ### PoC 1. Go to https://www.admidio.org/demo_en/adm_program/modules/messages/messages.php 2. Click on Send Private Message 3. In the `Message` field, enter the following payload `Testing<br><h1>HTML</h1><br><h2>Injection</h2>` > ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e5d9e4e-69c5-4908-9ab9-0c45c2548ff8) 4. Send the message 5. Open the message again > ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d36f1b64-7d96-486d-ab65-cce2b7d21428) ### Impact 1. Data Theft: Stealing sensitive information like cookies, session tokens, and user credentials. 2. Session Hijacking: Gaining unauthorized access to user accounts. 3. Phishing: Tricking users into revealing sensitive information. 4. Website Defacement: Altering the appearance or content of the website. 5. Malware Distribution: Spreading malware to users' devices. 6. Denial of Service (DoS): Ov...

Cyber Gangs Aren't Afraid of Prosecution

Challenges with cybercrime prosecution are making it easier for attackers to act with impunity. Law enforcement needs to catch up.

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk.

Hackers Abuse EDRSilencer Tool to Bypass Security and Hide Malicious Activity

Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected "threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection." EDRSilencer, inspired by the NightHawk FireBlock tool from MDSec, is

BYOB Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This Metasploit module exploits two vulnerabilities in the BYOB (Build Your Own Botnet) web GUI. It leverages an unauthenticated arbitrary file write that allows modification of the SQLite database, adding a new admin user. It also uses an authenticated command injection in the payload generation page. These vulnerabilities remain unpatched.