Politico - THE SAUCE ON DDoS — With cryptomining benefits on the decline, cyber attackers were more inclined to employ DDoS attacks in 2018, according to a report out this morning from NSFOCUS. However, the total number of DDoS attacks fell 28 percent from 2017, the company found. Most used...
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Apache HTTP Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, Apache Software Foundation released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) in the Apache HTTP Server. Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or prefork could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system by executing code in less-privileged child processes or...
2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-1
NSFOCUS Security Lab research has seen a dramatic decrease in DDoS attacks between 2017 and 2018. We are in consensus with other TI vendors as to most of the driving factors behind this large scale reduction, except one. This webinar 1 will show why NSFOCUS is breaking from the pack...
Internet Explorer and Edge Browsers 0-Day Vulnerability Threat Alert
Overview Recently, a foreign researcher announced a 0-day vulnerability with Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (IE). Enticing a user to click a malicious link, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the same-origin policy of the two kinds of browsers to launch a universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) attack to...
IP Reputation Report-03292019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: (more…)
UC Browser Potential Man-in-the-Middle Vulnerability Threat Alert
Overview Recently, a foreign researcher discovered a potential vulnerability in the UC browser which may affect hundreds of millions of users around the world. A hidden feature is found in the UC browser to download auxiliary software modules for execution by bypassing some restrictions of an application store. This feature...
