Collaborate Disseminate
Network attacks driven by traffic, such as DDoS, have long been classified by a capacity threshold or baseline limit. When traffic surpasses that limit, an alarm is triggered to indicate an attack. Internet service providers now face a more stealthy t… Continue reading Pulling the Rug Out on DDoS Carpet Bombers
Shortly after Cisco’s released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the… Continue reading FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers
More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group.
Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit have d… Continue reading Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
Hackers have started to abuse routers and other internet-of-things devices that expose their UPnP interfaces to the internet to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that are hard to block, even by DDoS mitigation providers. Researchers … Continue reading Hackers Using Hard-to-Block DDoS Amplification Technique
In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators.
An operation led by the UK’s Nat… Continue reading Police Shut Down World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire’ Service–Admins Arrested
How do DDoS attacks work? And how do we protect our organizations from the growing size and number of attacks?
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Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed.
Chines… Continue reading Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days
Security researchers have discovered a “kill switch” that could help companies protect their websites under massive DDoS attack launched using vulnerable Memcached servers.
Massive Memcached reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification … Continue reading ‘Kill Switch’ to Mitigate Memcached DDoS Attacks — Flush ‘Em All
Two separate proofs-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily.
The first DDoS tool is written in C progra… Continue reading Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released
So after the massive DDoS attack trend in 2016 it seems like 2018 is going to the year of the Memcached DDoS amplification attack with so many insecure Memcached servers available on the public Internet.
Unfortunately, it looks like a problem that won… Continue reading Memcached DDoS Attacks Will Be BIG In 2018