Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and … [Read more...] about Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families
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Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks
Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to date. Detailed by a group of academics from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder at the … [Read more...] about Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks