Here you will find all the articles with the tag: DDoS attack.
Microsoft announces that Azure DDoS Protection defended against a DDoS attack of 3.47 Tbps in November 2021. "The largest attack reported in history", Microsoft says. DDoS attackers use the connectivity of hacked devices to fire a large number of data packets at a target. If a target cannot pro... Read more
2 years ago
Cloudflare signalled a number of massive DDoS attacks in the past quarter. The attacks were mainly aimed at extorting VoIP providers. In addition, security experts note the arrival of a large botnet. According to Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS Attack Trends report, the past quarter was dominated by large ... Read more
2 years ago
Microsoft recently said that it successfully handled a 2.4 TB per-second distributed denial-of-service assault against an Azure client, the world's largest DDoS attack in history. Countries involved in the attack Nearly 70,000 sources across many countries in Asia-Pacific, including Japan, Ta... Read more
3 years ago
Cloudflare reported that its system managed to stop the most significant DDoS attack on record in July. In a post explaining what happened, Cloudflare said the attack was 17.2 million requests-per-second, about three times larger than the next biggest one ever recorded. Omer Yoachimik, the... Read more
3 years ago
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malefactors are abusing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to increase the effectiveness of their attacks. The Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol service included in Microsoft Windows operating systems is intended to provide authenticated remote virt... Read more
3 years ago
The attacks are actively targeting Citrix Application Delivery Controllers. Citrix has issued an advisory notice detailing the threat of a distributed denial-of-service attack pattern impacting Citrix ADCs. As part of this attack, an attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC DTLS network thr... Read more
3 years ago
Someone has put a new spin on the good old DDoS attack. This new one is inspired by an acoustic beat, of all things. The attack was first spotted by the web infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. It comes as pulsating waves instead of bombarding a site in the old style. This attack simulates the beat ... Read more
3 years ago
Targets must pay thousands in Bitcoin or face DDoS attacks. Last week, the digital security firm Radware published a blog post that included extortion notes from hackers. These notes had been sent to a variety of companies around the world, according to Radware. In each of these "ransom notes... Read more
4 years ago
Content delivery and cloud security specialist Akamai claims to have mitigated the largest-ever packet-per-second (PPS) DDoS attack. The target was attacked at a rate of 809 million packets per second. DDoS attacks are volume-based attacks that target companies using large amounts of data or IP ... Read more
4 years ago
Amazon Web Services successfully mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack in February this year. It is the largest DDoS attack ever performed. AWS published this data in its Q1 2020 threat report. The attack lasted a total of three days and was eventually mitigated by AWS Shield, a service designed to p... Read more
4 years ago
