Here you will find all the articles with the tag: DDos.
Akamai repelled one of the largest DDoS attacks in European history. Cybercriminals attacked a company with 660 million packets per second (Mpps) and 854 Gbps of data during a 14-hour peak. According to Akamai, the target company suffered a constant DDoS attack for 30 days. Traffic peaked on 21 ... Read more
2 years ago
EnemyBot is expanding rapidly. According to security researchers at AT&T Alien Labs, the botnet targets more and more platforms. EnemyBot is rapidly expanding its ecosystem. The botnet was discovered in April and targets vulnerabilities in web servers, content management systems, IoT devices... Read more
2 years ago
Cloudflare detected a DDoS attack of 15.3 million HTTPS requests-per-second (rps) -- one of the largest HTTPS attacks ever observed. DDoS attackers use botnets to flood a victim's server with HTTP or HTTPS requests. In 2021, Cloudflare detected a record attack of 17.2 million HTTP requests per ... Read more
2 years ago
HP has issued a security alert regarding new significant security flaws in the Teradici PCoIP client and agent for Windows, Linux, and macOS, which affect 15 million endpoints. Teradici is afflicted by the recently exposed OpenSSL certificate parsing problem, which creates an indefinite denial o... Read more
2 years ago
F5 researched the development of last year's DDoS attacks. Though the amount of attacks dropped in 2021, the average incident was larger and more complex. According to F5, the volume of global DDoS attacks decreased by 3 percent. Attacks were much larger in scale. The average size rose to more ... Read more
2 years ago
The country's cyber watchdog agency says Russian hackers are attacking government websites. Ukrainian websites have been under nonstop attack from Russian hackers since the Kremlin launched an invasion of the country last month, according to reporting in Reuters. In a post to Twitter, Ukraine... Read more
2 years ago
Ukraine suffered major cyberattacks against local banks, ATMs and Defense Ministry websites. According to NetBlocks, the incident concerns a large-scale DDoS attack. NetBlocks statistics show that a large-scale cyberattack has hit several major banks in Ukraine since Tuesday afternoon. The websi... Read more
2 years ago
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
Security will continue to be one of the most important concerns for companies in 2022. According to Neustar International Security Council (NISC), companies' security budgets will further increase in the coming year. NISC, a research department of security and analytics specialist Neustar, says ... 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
