An NTP Amplification attack belongs to the family of DDos attacks and is executed in large volumes. The attack takes place by exploiting the NTP- Network Time Protocol functionality to overburden a targeted network making it difficult for it to access the regular…
What is an Application Layer Attack? Protection and Preventive Measures
September 28, 2020
An Application Layer attack (DDoS attack) exploits system vulnerabilities and loopholes to attack the application resulting in complete malfunction. Web servers are the most common targets of this malicious digital threat, however, in addition to this, it also targets…
Developed by the grey-hat hacker- RSnake, the Slowloris attack is a type of DDoS attack. This Denial of Service attack exploits partial HTTP requests to slow down the target. The HTTP requests are used to keep the connections between the targeted web server and the…
An IP Fragmentation attack belongs to the family of Denial Of Service (DoS) attacks and is widespread over the Internet spectrum. During this type of attack, the hackers try to block the access of a particular website for its users.
Hackers use the concept of data…
Necurs Botnet is known to be one of the biggest malware distributors and spam emails that the internet has seen in the last few years. It uses a massive collection of cybercriminal-controlled systems to infect computer machines all over the world, hence the name…
A Trojan Infostealer, commonly recognized as the information thief, is a nasty type of computer Trojan that is designed by digital hackers and programmers to gather and steal valuable information from vulnerable systems without the users’ knowledge. The most common…
Commonly known as an Internet worm, an Email worm is a malicious worm that spreads via emails. It attaches itself to email messages, weblinks, and network sources of third party websites.
The code gets executed when a user opens the infected email attachments or…
An IRC worm (Internet Relay Chat Worm) is a malicious program designed to exploit IRC channels to infect chat rooms and message forums by sending infected messages.
Since the IRC channel consists of numerous channels it provides a ready platform for the cyber-security…
The security software disabler Trojan: Protection and preventive measures
September 17, 2020
A Security Software Disabler Trojan is specifically designed to affect the overall working of an antivirus program of a system. It aims at disabling the Firewall and antivirus software and works in packages with other trojans as payloads.
Once the security walls of a…
An Instant Messaging worm is a malicious piece of malware that spreads over the IM network. It is a self-replicating code that spreads by exploiting the loopholes in the instant messaging network.
Over the years, the Instant Messaging Worm has grown at an insane rate…
