Overview On May 12, 2021, Microsoft released May 2021 Security Updates to fix 55 vulnerabilities, including high-risk remote code execution and privilege escalation, in widely used products like Microsoft Windows, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio Code, and Internet Explorer. In the vulnerabilities fixed by this month's security updates, there are...
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VMware VCenter Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-21985) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On May 26, NSFOCUS CERT discovered that VMware released a security advisory that announces mitigation of the VMware vCenter Server remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-21985) and vCenter Server plug-in authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2021-21986). The Virtual SAN Check plug-in in vCenter Server lacks input validation, allowing attackers who have...
Speech by Wenmao Liu of NSFOCUS: Research on New Vectors of UDP-based DDoS Amplification Attacks of IoT
As the world's largest cybersecurity industry conference, the RSA Conference held its 30th annual event in 2021. It has been a driving force behind sharing, innovation, and progress in the global cybersecurity community. NSFOCUS stood out at the RSA Conference 2021 by making a debut on the conference speech podium...
2020 DDoS Attack Landscape Report – 2
Key Findings – 2 The Bandwidth of DDoS attacks in 5G Environments Grew Steadily. Small and Medium-sized Attacks Overtook Small Attacks to Become the Mainstream Over the five-year period from 2016 to 2020, the average peak size of DDoS attacks rose to a new level since the latter half of...
Analysis of the SBIDIOT IoT Malware
Produced by: Yuchen PAN Introduction Recently, an IoT malware sample dubbed SBIDIOT is found to engage in malicious activities, mainly distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. So far, very few incidents of this malware have been discovered by VirusTotal and cybersecurity communities. Though some IoT botnets focus on cryptocurrency mining...
RSA Conference 2021
RSA Conference 2021 May 17-20, Virtual Event
