A threat group is leveraging a rarely-used way to exploit legitimate Windows services, evade detection and install malware, according to researchers at Trustwave. Dubbed Pingback, researchers report ...

OSI reference model that divides the communication function into a hierarchical structure, and is a protocol used for sending control messages on the Internet. Illumination packet light color and ...

MystRodX backdoor, active since Jan 2024, uses encrypted payloads and DNS/ICMP triggers for stealthy C2 control.

TCP/IP is the collection of protocols that manages connectivity across the Internet. Because system attacks that take advantage of flaws and weaknesses in the protocol generally do not get as much ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few ...

Heartbleed and Shellshock are proving to be particularly heinous security threats. Heartbleed is an attack on the OpenSSL cryptography library on websites around the world, which exposes a ...