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Targeting DDoS attacks as first and last line of data protection

By Mark Albertson | Sep 9 2020

Like a clogged freeway at rush hour, distributed denial-of-service (or DDoS attacks) can cause tremendous inconvenience when internet traffic slows to a crawl or ceases to move altogether. In the COVID-19 era, DDoS attacks are escalating. From March 11 to April 11 of this year, NetScout Systems Inc. observed over 864,000 DDoS [...]

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

By Duncan Riley | Aug 26 2020

New Zealand’s stock exchange was forced to halt trading for several hours Wednesday following a sustained cyberattack, the second in two days. In a statement, the exchange said it was targeted by a volumetric distributed-denial-of-service attack from offshore that affected its NZX system connectivity. NZX decided to halt trading. A DDoS attack aims to [...]

Akamai mitigates new record high packet-per-second DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Jun 25 2020

As computing power continues to grow at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, it allows hackers and other bad actors to reach new records when it comes to cyberattacks. Last week, Amazon Web Services Inc. detailed how it mitigated the largest ever record distributed denial-of-service attack. Today, Akamai Technologies [...]

AWS mitigated a record-breaking 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack in February

By Duncan Riley | Jun 17 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. today revealed that it managed to mitigate a 2.3 terabytes-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack in February, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in the AWS Shield Threat Landscape Report- Q1 2020, the attack lasted three days, with those behind it unsuccessful in knocking Amazon cloud services offline. The attack [...]

Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Jan 22 2020

The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack. Tucker Preston, 22, from Macon, Georgia, the previous owner of BackConnect Inc., a company that claims to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation,” pleaded guilty under the terms [...]

Wikipedia suffers outages in Europe, Middle East after sustained DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Sep 8 2019

Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of details about the attack but implied that it may have [...]

Telegram briefly offline after a DDoS attack, likely from China

By Duncan Riley | Jun 12 2019

Popular encrypted messaging app Telegram was briefly offline Wednesday after it was targeted by a powerful distributed denial-of-service attack, possibly related to current protests in Hong Kong. The attack took the service, which has an estimated 200 million users, offline for at least an hour but possibly longer, according to some reports. [...]

Report finds the hospitality industry becoming a favorite target of DDoS attacks

By Duncan Riley | Jun 26 2018

The hospitality industry has become the favorite target of botnets and distributed denial-of-service attacks. That’s the surprising takeaway from a report released today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The Summer State of the Internet Security report, which delved into cyberattack trends for the six-month period from November 2017 through April 2018, reveals the importance of [...]

Tennessee DDoS attack may have been motivated by retaliation or protest

By Duncan Riley | May 6 2018

Russians? Chinese? Gun-averse liberals who hate Dixieland? All of those and other factors could be responsible for one of the weirdest cyberattacks of recent times after an election in Knox County, the main seat of government for Knoxville, Tennessee, was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The DDoS attacked occurred last Tuesday evening, [...]

Record-breaking GitHub DDoS attack: Here’s what enterprises need to know

By Duncan Riley | Mar 1 2018

Days after security companies first detected a new form of distributed denial-of-service attack, GitHub has been targeted by the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in an incident report, the attack occurred at 12:21 p.m. EST Wednesday and also saw an amplification of the attack using the same new Memcached-based approach. The [...]

115 results for ddos/about:blank

Targeting DDoS attacks as first and last line of data protection

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

Akamai mitigates new record high packet-per-second DDoS attack

AWS mitigated a record-breaking 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack in February

Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack

Wikipedia suffers outages in Europe, Middle East after sustained DDoS attack

Telegram briefly offline after a DDoS attack, likely from China

Report finds the hospitality industry becoming a favorite target of DDoS attacks

Tennessee DDoS attack may have been motivated by retaliation or protest

Record-breaking GitHub DDoS attack: Here’s what enterprises need to know

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