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Zyxel Patch Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Zyxel firewall and VPN products have been found to contain two critical severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers. The affected products include ATP, USG FLEX, USG FLEX50(W) and USG20(W)-VPN, VPN, and ZyWall/USG. Zyxel have released a security advisory to inform users of these products about these vulnerabilities, and which patch […]

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New Botnet Campaign uses Critical Ruckus Flaw

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

Researchers at Fortinet have identified a new botnet campaign that utilises a Ruckus remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability to install malware and perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This botnet is known as AndoryuBot due to the filename ‘Andoryu’ being used for the malware installed in this attack. It was first seen in attacks

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The Threat of Holiday DDoS Attacks

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, with the second half of 2021 showing a 43% increase in attacks since the first half of the same year. The Microsoft Digital Defence Report for 2022 shows that so far in 2022 Microsoft have mitigated nearly 2000 DDoS attacks each day. This report also

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Palo Alto Networks Exploited in DoS Attacks

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

A denial-of-service vulnerability was identified this month in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), a branch of the US government, have added this vulnerability to their list of known exploited vulnerabilities. Tracked as CVE-2022-0028, this flaw affects the URL filtering policy in multiple versions of PAN-OS running on

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Largest Ever DDoS Exceeds 21m requests per second

News / Ian Reynolds

Russian Internet firm Yandex has been fighting a DDoS attack all summer, which has reached a peak attack rate of 21.8 million requests per second, powered by a quarter of a million rogue routers that form the Meris botnet. According to security firm Qrator Labs which provides DDoS protection for Yandex, up to 56,000 devices

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Plex Media Server abused in DDOS Attacks

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

37,000 Plex Media servers exposed to the internet are being abused in DDOS attacks according to a new security report. Plex Media Server is a personal media library and streaming platform available on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. One of the attractions of Plex is the ability to stream your local media library to remote

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AWS deflects largest every DDoS

News / Ian Reynolds

Amazon Web Services has revealed that in May 2020 it deflected the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The previous largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack had been against GitHub in 2018 which was measured at 1.3 Terabits (Thousand Billion bits per second) – the attack against AWS in May was almost double at 2.3

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Zyxel Patch Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

New Botnet Campaign uses Critical Ruckus Flaw

The Threat of Holiday DDoS Attacks

Palo Alto Networks Exploited in DoS Attacks

Largest Ever DDoS Exceeds 21m requests per second

Plex Media Server abused in DDOS Attacks

AWS deflects largest every DDoS

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