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memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

ASERT Threat Summary: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations Date/Time: 27022018 1645UTC Title/Number: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – February 2018 – v1.3. Severity: Critical Distribution: TLP WHITE (see <https://www.us-cert.gov/tlp>) Categories: Availability Authors: Roland Dobbins & Steinthor Bjarnason Contributors: Luan Nguyen, […]

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memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

ASERT Threat Summary: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations Date/Time: 27022018 2325UTC Title/Number: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – February 2018 – v1.4. Severity: Critical Distribution: TLP WHITE (see <https://www.us-cert.gov/tlp>) Categories: Availability Authors: Roland Dobbins & Steinthor Bjarnason Contributors: Keshav […]

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Down to the WireX

Over the course of the last few weeks, a botnet comprised mainly of Android mobile devices has been utilized to launch a high-impact DDoS extortion campaign against multiple organizations in the travel and hospitality sector. This botnet, dubbed ‘WireX’, is only the second mobile botnet […]

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Mirai IoT Botnet Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation

Authors:  Roland Dobbins & Steinthor Bjarnason Since its inception in August of 2016, the Mirai ‘Internet-of-Things’ (IoT) botnet, comprised largely of internet-enabled digital video recorders (DVRs), surveillance cameras, and other Internet-enabled embedded devices, has been utilized by attackers to launch multiple high-profile, high-impact DDoS attacks against various Internet properties and services.  Mirai serves as the basis of an ongoing DDoS-for-hire ‘booter’/‘stresser’ […]

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How to Become an Internet Supervillain in Three Easy Steps

One of the truisms of comic books and graphic novels is that nothing is immutable – both heroes and villains are rebooted, retconned, featured as radically (or subtly) different versions in alternate timelines, etc. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which so far includes the Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Avengers films, is a good example. DC are doing the same with The Flash and Green Arrow, and the latest cinematic incarnations of Batman and Superman are set to do battle with one another in a projected summer blockbuster movie next year.

And these new variants on old stories proliferate throughout the various versions of each character arc – variations on the same themes, but instantly recognizable to long-time fans and easily remembered by new ones. Tony Stark’s updated Iron Man origin story in the first Iron Man movie is one such example; the supervillain Mystique’s origin in the X-Men series of films (not part of the MCU) is another.

That isn’t to say that there’s no innovation taking place – Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns radically migrated the general public perception of Batman away from the 1960s comedy paradigm Continue reading