According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of those behind recent DDoS att…
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Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?
China bore the brunt of DDoS reflection attacks last month, with 61 percent of the top attack destinations observed hitting Chinese-based systems, according to Nexusguard. Of the 21,845 attack events …
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China is the top target for DDoS reflection attacks
Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi…
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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks
Neustar released the findings of its latest DDoS report, including key trends. The global research reveals more activity around targeted, smaller assaults aimed at distracting firms’ IT departments wh…
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7 key global DDoS trends revealed
A type of DDoS attack that has until now been mostly theoretical has become reality: CloudFlare engineers have spotted a browser-based Layer 7 flood hitting one of its customers with as many as 275,00…
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Mobile ad network exploited to launch JavaScript-based DDoS attack
For the past three quarters, there has been a doubling in the number of DDoS attacks year over year, according to Akamai. And while attackers favored less powerful but longer duration attacks this qua…
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The unstoppable rise of DDoS attacks
We all know the damage that DDoS-for-hire services can inflict on websites and organizations behind them. What is less known is that a simple move like making PayPal seize the accounts through whic…
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How to sabotage DDoS-for-hire services?
There's a striking disparity between how threatened service providers feel by potential DDoS attacks and how prepared they are to mitigate one, according to a Black Lotus survey. The findings demonstr…
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How DDoS attacks impact service providers
The increase in the frequency, volume and sophistication of DDoS attacks has helped boost the awareness of these threats among Asia-Pacific (APAC) enterprises. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan fi…
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A proactive approach to DDoS attack prevention
Attackers are using Joomla servers with a vulnerable Google Maps plugin installed as a platform for launching DDoS attacks. A known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin for Joomla allows the plugi…
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New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy