The DoJ has announced charges against Anonymous Sudan members and the disruption of their DDoS attack service.
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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,
The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan’s “powerful DDoS tool,” singled out critical infrastructure, corporate networks,
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
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
Iranian hackers act as brokers selling critical infrastructure access
Iranian hackers are breaching critical infrastructure organizations to collect credentials and network data that can be sold on cybercriminal forums to enable cyberattacks from other threat actors. […]
Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software. […]
USDoD hacker behind National Public Data breach arrested in Brazil
A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil’s Polícia Federal in “Operation Data Breach”. […]
Code Execution, Data Tampering Flaw in Nvidia NeMo Gen-AI Framework
Artificial intelligence tech giant Nvidia issues a warning for code execution and data tampering security problems in the NeMo platform.
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SolarWinds Web Help Desk flaw is now exploited in attacks
CISA has added three flaws to its ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities’ (KEV) catalog, among which is a critical hardcoded credentials flaw in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) that the vendor fixed in late August 2024. […]
US disrupts Anonymous Sudan DDoS operation, indicts 2 Sudanese brothers
The United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment today against two Sudanese brothers suspected of being the operators of Anonymous Sudan, a notorious and dangerous hacktivist group known for conducting over 35,000 DDoS attacks in a year. […]
VMware Patches High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in HCX Platform
VMware patches CVE-2024-38814 and warns that attackers with non-administrator privileges can execute remote code on the HCX manager.
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