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DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS attack ever. From Imperva’s long history of successfully mitigating… Continue reading Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.
DDoS attacks are usually measured by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 1.35 Terabits per second (maximum) attack directed at GitHub last year, the largest DDoS attack ever at the time. However, in DDoS attack mitigation, it’s not the … Continue reading This DDoS Attack Unleashed the Most Packets Per Second Ever. Here’s Why That’s Important.
DDoS attack volumes have increased by 50% to an average of 3.3 Gbps during May, June and July 2018, compared to 2.2 Gbps during the previous quarter, according to Link11. Attacks are also becoming increasingly complex, with 46% of incidents using two o… Continue reading DDoS attackers increasingly strike outside of normal business hours
DDoS attacks is relentless. New techniques, new targets and a new class of attackers continue to reinvigorate one of the internet’s oldest nemesis. Continue reading DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse
Distributed Denial of Service attacks maybe one of the oldest tools in a hacker’s toolbox, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t fallen out of fashion. Continue reading ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends
DNS amplification types of DDoS attacks doubled in the first quarter of 2018 over last quarter, and spiked nearly 700 percent year-over-year, according to Nexusguard. Nexusguard’s scanning and attack Memcached honeypot Nexusguard’s Q1 2018 Threat Repor… Continue reading DNS amplification attacks double in Q1 2018
Earlier this year, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack in its history, fueled by a new reflector, memcached. The attack targeted one of our software clients and broke through the 1 Tbps threshold for the first time. Memcached was developed… Continue reading State of the Internet Summer 2018 Attack Spotlight: What You Need To Know
How do DDoS attacks work? And how do we protect our organizations from the growing size and number of attacks?
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In the news, Memcrashed Memcached DDoS exploit tool, Flash, Windows Users: It’s Time to Patch, VMware releases security updates, what happens when Bitcoin miners take over your town, and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly! Paul&… Continue reading Flash, Pwn2Own, & VMware – Paul’s Security Weekly #551
Security researchers have discovered a new malware framework that’s used for cyberespionage and is delivered to computers through hacked MikroTik routers. Dubbed Slingshot, the malware has a modular architecture and is on par with state-sponsore… Continue reading Attackers Infect Computers with Cyberespionage Malware via Hacked Routers