Exploit code used in the Mirai malware variant called Satori, which was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers over the past several weeks, is now public. Researchers warn the code will quickly become a commodity and be leveraged in DDoS attacks via botnets such as Reaper or IOTrooper. Ankit Anubhav, researcher at […]
Someone on the internet seems very angry with cyber-security blogger Brian Krebs. On 20 September, Krebs’ website was hit with what experts say is the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in public internet history, knocking it offline for days with a furious 600 to 700 Gbps (Gigabits per second) traffic surge.
Cisco said on Thursday it has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its IOS XR software used in carrier-grade routers. The vulnerability, Cisco said, rests in the ipv6 processing code used by IOS XR in the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. The bug is remotely exploitable and is due to incorrect processing of legitimate […]
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