DDoS news stories - Page 2

"We have seen the cryptomining and DDoS attack groups competing for resources, since many of the same botnets used for DDoS attacks can be used for cryptomining."

Radware’s director of threat intelligence, Pascal Geenens, says in the first nine months of 2021 there were more blocked attacks than there were in the entirety of 2020.

"The impact of phantom flood attacks should not be underestimated. They can cause major disruption to the customer experience when they go undetected."

"The motivations behind these huge attacks are unclear at this point."

Cyberattacks continue to have a dramatic impact on private and public organisations and governments worldwide.

As more essential services are delivered digitally, availability becomes the most pressing concern, writes Cisco ThousandEyes solutions architect Mike Hicks.

This is likely due to the region's acceleration of DevOps programs and practices during COVID-19.

Internet infrastructure provider Vocus has confirmed it was hit with a DDoS attack which took its internet down for about an hour today, affecting people across the country.

The pandemic has driven large scale growth in online banking, dramatically increasing the volume of sensitive customer data that’s available to steal, Imperva states.

Research finds RDDoS attacks are a more significant threat to organisations than ransomware.

Radware’s North America vice president Bob Simpson says that there has been a rapid shift to cloud - and more sophisticated cyber attacks to go with it.

Scammers have been looking for ways to amplify DDoS attacks.

"The window between the disclosing and weaponising of new vulnerabilities is getting very slim."

"This is the first time we are seeing the bad actors selectively target organisations and favour those with unprotected assets for their ransom letters."

A new wave of DDoS extortion campaigns by Fancy Lazarus has been identified by Link11.

The DDoS attack report analyses attack activity by industries, attack vectors, DDoS attacks on applications and on-premise versus cloud.

Modern cloud architectures are moving from monolithic, tiered models to distributed microservices-based architectures, writes Gigamon CTO Shehzad Merchant.

By the end of 2020, the extortionists started circling back to earlier victims who did not pay ransom in earlier attempts, reusing their attack research.

One of the ways of preventing DDoS attacks is through the use of what is called an origin shield.

Zscaler has announced its new Ransomware Report highlighting the most prolific ransomware actors, their attack tactics, and the industries being targeted.

The ways in which bad actors can use DNS to mount attacks are numerous. Here are some of the most popular ones.

Surprisingly, a vast volume of malicious traffic can reach a residential device, writes Radware head of research Daniel Smith.

“As opposed to other 'all in one' solutions that can be vulnerable to platform outages, our distinct, purpose-built DDoS solutions are architected to ensure multiple levels of resilience."

There was a 154% increase in the number of cyber attacks between 2019 and 2020, with growth in ransom-related DDoS.