The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been insufficient. A research team at Imperva Incapsula has found that the a variant of the Mirai worm, which it calls […]
By now you’ve likely heard about the Shellshock vulnerability (also known as CVE-2014-6271). It’s a vulnerability that was recently discovered in the bash shell, a very old and central part of the Unix/Linux system. This vulnerability has apparently been around for a very long time, but has just recently been discovered. What’s Shellshock? Shellshock is a […]
A new worm that propagates itself from router to router has been discovered by Security researcher Johannes B. Ullrich of the SANS Technology Institute. This Linksys worm was named “The Moon” because it includes some basic HTML pages with images based on the movie “The Moon”. The worm takes advantage of vulnerabilities in several Linksys products, including the models: […]
A new worm has been found that attacks Internet of Things devices. The worm, Linux.Darlloz, exploits a PHP vulnerability to propagate itself in the wild. The worm utilizes the PHP ‘php-cgi’ Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1823), which is an old vulnerability that was patched in May 2012. The attacker recently created the worm based on the […]