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Vulnerable servers of all kinds are being targeted, compromised and made to mine cryptocurrencies for the attackers. Apache Solr servers under attack SANS ISC handler Renato Marihno warns about an...

A medium yet critical vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning software that could allow a local attacker to elevate privileges to root and take full control of...

Massive 1.7 Tbps Reflection/Amplification Attack Exploits Open Memcached ServersNearly 100,000 servers that run the open source Memcached utiltity appear to remain vulnerable to being abused to...

Someone has just released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for amplification attack and a pre-compiled list of nearly 17,000 potential vulnerable Memcached servers on the Internet that could...

If you’re using the Exim mail transfer agent on your Internet-connected Unix-like systems and you haven’t yet upgraded to version 4.90.1, now is the time to do it as all previous versions contain...

GitHub Disrupted by 1.5 Tbps Onslaught as New DDoS Attack Type EmergesSay hello to a new type of DDoS attack: UDP amplification via internet-facing servers running memcached, an open source...

Firmware versions of HPE’s remote management hardware iLO3 have an unauthenticated remote denial of service vulnerability.

Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.

Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers exposed to the...

Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of...