Entering into the 1Tbps Era

Background On February 27th Radware noticed an increase in activity on UDP port 11211. As other organizations began to disclose a trend in UDP amplified attacks over UDP port 11211, Radware’s ERT Research team and the Threat Research Center bega… Continue reading Entering into the 1Tbps Era

1984 to 2018: The Evolution of the Olympics

Change is inevitable and it happens in every industry. Those that evolve with change often help lead the transformation and revolutionize their domain. In 2016 we began to enter the era of digital transformation in our industry and changes have begun … Continue reading 1984 to 2018: The Evolution of the Olympics

Retail’s #1 Demographic This Holiday? Bots.

More than half of all internet traffic is bot-driven.  That means, if you have a website, you have experienced bots in one way or another. Bots are automated software that interacts with your website for a number of different reasons, both in a legitimate and illegitimate way. In general, there are two different types of […]

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The Evolution of the Dark Web

Darknet markets are nothing new but they have grown considerably in popularity since the highly publicized take down of the Silk Road marketplace in October of 2013. Since then users around the world have flocked to these sites in search of drugs and other illicit services. Due to the high demand and availability for these […]

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Gaming – Legitimate vs. Malicious Users

Over the years Radware has followed the evolution of DDoS attacks directed at the gaming industry. For the industry, large-scale DDoS attacks can result in network outages or service degradation and has become an everyday occurrence. In 2016 Lizard Squad and Poodle Corp launched repeated attacks against EA, Blizzard and Riot Games, resulting in service […]

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RDoS campaign underway in the United States

This blog discusses active research from Radware’s ERT research team regarding a DDoS for Ransom campaign. This is a preliminary report and will be updated accordingly. Since the ProtonMail attack in 2015, Radware’s ERT has been tracking and mitigating DDoS for Ransom campaigns, RDoS, from groups like the Armada Collective. An RDoS campaign is a […]

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SMB Vulnerabilities – WannaCry, Adylkuzz and SambaCry

Last month on Friday, May 12th a global incident related to a ransomware variant named WannaCry broke out, targeting computers around the world. Everything from personal computers to corporate and university networks were affected by this campaign. The campaign spread across networks leveraging a recently disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft SMB service. On March 14th 2017, […]

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WannaCrypt

Over the last few days, Radware’s Security Research Groups have been monitoring a global incident related to a ransomware variant named WannaCrypt, also known as WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r and wcry. On the morning of Friday May 12th, a ransomware campaign began targeting computers around the world. Once a computer was infected, a worm replicated itself across […]

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