Tag: DDoS

January 22, 2019

The Nexusguard Q3 2018 Threat Report has revealed the emergence of an extremely stealthy DDoS attack pattern targeting communications service providers (CSPs). This new vector exploits the large attack surface of ASN-level (autonomous system number) CSPs by spreading tiny attack […]

January 14, 2019

Two men who launched DDoS attacks against a variety of targets have received substantial prison sentences on Friday. Attacks against Liberian telecom 30-year-old Daniel Kaye (aka “BestBuy”), from Egham, Surrey (UK) has been sentenced to spend 2 years and 8 […]

June 6, 2018

In October 2016 DNS provider Dyn was hit by a major DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack by an army of IoT devices which had been hacked especially for the purpose. Over 14,000 domains using Dyn’s services were overwhelmed and […]

May 15, 2018

‘Lock down UPnP routers,’ researchers say. A new DDoS technique is adding a new twist to this common threat and upping the chance that an attack will have an impact on business operations. The new attack leverages a known vulnerability […]

March 23, 2018

The cost of having an organization targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for an hour is as low as $10, cybersecurity firm Armor says. The low cost of launching such attacks results from the proliferation of cybercrime-as-a-service, […]

March 8, 2018

Corero shares a kill switch for the Memcached vulnerability and reports the flaw is more extensive than originally believed. Corero Network Security has disclosed a “kill switch” for the Memcached vulnerability to national security agencies and shared new evidence indicating […]

March 5, 2018

The largest distributed denial of service attack was recorded Wednesday and targeted GitHub. The DDoS attack measured 1.3 Tbps of sustained traffic for eight minutes. That shattered a previous DDoS publicly record attack associated with the Mirai botnet in Sept., […]

January 15, 2018

Well, this is bad…very bad. Mirai malware and its many variants which have targeted CPU architectures in the past, is now targeting the second most popular type of CPU core – ARC processors. Meet Mirai Okiru, the Mirai variant targeting […]

December 6, 2017

Botnets act as a force multiplier for individual attackers, cyber-criminal groups, and nation-states looking to disrupt or break into their targets’ systems. By definition, they are a collection of any type of internet-connected device that an attacker has compromised. Commonly […]

November 8, 2017

Survey finds 69% of companies’ distributed denial-of-service attack defenses were breached in the past year – despite confidence in their mitigation technologies. A whopping 88% of US companies claim confidence in their DDoS mitigation technologies, yet 69% have suffered an […]

October 27, 2017

DDoS attacks are expected to number in the hundreds of thousands this year and cost companies billions of dollars in damages. To help organizations understand and protect against such attacks, cybersecurity thought leader Joseph Steinberg shared five top DDoS trends […]

October 27, 2017

Since the first Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack was launched in 1974, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have remained among the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. Let’s examine how these attacks have evolved and how your company can mitigate them: DDoS in Review […]

October 16, 2017

Late last month, global distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection provider Cloudflare announced that it would no longer charge customers extra when they were under attack. The company claims to have nearly 10 million customers and a presence in 117 […]

September 8, 2017

A new SANS survey found that ransomware, insider threats and denial of service are considered the top three threats organizations face when it comes to securing sensitive data. According to the study, 78 percent of respondents report encountering two or […]

September 5, 2017

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: New, custom ransomware delivered to orgs via extremely targeted emails Ransomware campaigns are usually wide-flung affairs: the attackers send out as many malicious emails as possible […]

August 29, 2017

A collaboration between leading content delivery networks and technology companies—some of them competitors—is in the midst of shutting down the largest botnet of mobile devices ever recorded. The WireX botnet was detected on Aug. 17 after businesses in a number […]

June 16, 2017

The U.S. government on Wednesday issued its most direct and technically detailed advisory about North Korea’s hacking activity to date, warning that the country continues to target U.S. media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors. The technical alert, distributed by […]

June 6, 2017

The greatest DDoS risk for organisations is the barrage of short, low volume attacks which mask more serious network intrusions. Despite several headline-dominating, high-volume DDoS attacks over the past year, the vast majority (98%) of the DDoS attack attempts against […]

May 2, 2017

Neustar and Harris Interactive conducted global, independent research of 1,010 directors, managers, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and other c-suite executives to find out how DDoS attacks affect their organizations and what measures are in place to counter these threats. The respondents […]

March 29, 2017

So you’ve finally made the move and deployed one of your business applications in the cloud. You picked a leading public cloud provider (Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure) thinking this will get you the peace of mind you are […]