Recent Security News
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October 10, 2023 at 11:54AM – Mirai Variant IZ1H9 Adds 13 Exploits to Arsenal
October 10, 2023 at 11:54AM A variant of the Mirai botnet, known as IZ1H9, has updated its tools with 13 new exploits targeting vulnerabilities in IoT devices from various manufacturers, including D-Link, TP-Link, Zyxel, and others. This variant is highly active in exploiting these vulnerabilities for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Fortinet observed thousands of attack…
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October 10, 2023 at 11:30AM – HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited to Launch Record DDoS Attacks
October 10, 2023 at 11:30AM Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google have taken measures to address a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The attacks, which exploited a flaw in the HTTP/2 protocol, affected the companies’ cloud infrastructures. The attacks overloaded servers by sending and canceling requests in quick succession,…
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October 10, 2023 at 10:33AM – Fresh curl tomorrow will patch ‘worst’ security flaw in ages
October 10, 2023 at 10:33AM Curl version 8.4.0 is set to be released tomorrow, addressing two security flaws. One of the flaws is considered the worst security flaw in curl in a long time. The update will address CVE-2023-38545, affecting both libcurl and the curl tool, and CVE-2023-38546, affecting libcurl only. The update does not…