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Ukrainian websites knocked offline in massive DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Feb 23 2022

Government and private websites in Ukraine have been knocked offline in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack as Russian troops move into contested areas in the east of the country. Websites knocked offline included the Ukraine Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Internal Affairs, the Ukraine Security Service and the Cabinet on Ministers. [...]

Netscout threat report identifies rise in DDoS attacks and increased criminal agility

By Mark Albertson | Nov 3 2021

Netscout Systems Inc. recently released its biannual “Threat Intelligence Report,” and the findings offered a sobering assessment of a cybersecurity landscape under siege. One key trend worth noting was that distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks are on pace to eclipse last year’s record of 10 million. These attacks send multiple requests [...]

New botnet targets Android devices to facilitate DDoS attacks

By Duncan Riley | Feb 4 2021

A new botnet has been discovered in the wild that targets Android devices to facilitate distributed denial-of-service attacks. Discovered and detailed Tuesday by researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab, the botnet was first detected on Jan. 26. It was initially believed to be an outbreak of the infamous Mirai botnet, but further investigation found that [...]

Citrix warns of active DDoS attack targeting its Application Delivery Controllers

By Duncan Riley | Dec 24 2020

Citrix Systems Inc. has issued a threat advisory over a distributed denial-of-service attack that’s actively targeting Citrix Application Delivery Controllers. The campaign involves overwhelming the Citrix ADB Datagram Transport Layer Security network throughput to cause outbound bandwidth exhaustion that can result in potential outages. The effect of the attack is said to be [...]

Google launches Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection to prevent DDoS attacks

By Mike Wheatley | Nov 18 2020

Google LLC said today it’s advancing intelligent automation within its cloud network security controls as part of its ongoing mission to shore up its customers’ defenses. One of the biggest threats that many businesses face today is distributed denial-of-service attacks on their infrastructure. They’re designed to take websites and applications offline by [...]

30,000 DDoS attacks a day … and rising: NetScout’s first threat report of 2020 shows ‘ongoing onslaught’ to the network

By Betsy Amy-Vogt | Sep 29 2020

Distributed denial of service events, known as DDoS attacks, are old school when it comes to cyber threats. But that doesn’t mean that they’re obsolete. Slowing down or crashing devices by overwhelming systems with incoming requests is still high on cyber criminals’ “to-do” lists. And as 2020 drives work, school and socialization online, [...]

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 [...]

107 results for ddos

Ukrainian websites knocked offline in massive DDoS attack

Netscout threat report identifies rise in DDoS attacks and increased criminal agility

New botnet targets Android devices to facilitate DDoS attacks

Citrix warns of active DDoS attack targeting its Application Delivery Controllers

30,000 DDoS attacks a day … and rising: NetScout’s first threat report of 2020 shows ‘ongoing onslaught’ to the network

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

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