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Duration of application DDoS attacks increasing, some go on for days
There were seven major application DDoS attacks over the previous month — two of which lasted 5-6 days, Imperva reveals. Additionally, the team found that 47% of account…
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Week in review: DDoS attack trends, WannaCry lessons, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Zero-day flaws in widespread TCP/IP library open millions of IoT devices to remote attack 19…
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How the pandemic affected DDoS attack patterns, global internet traffic
There has been a shift in internet traffic patterns coinciding with an increase in DDoS and other types of network attacks in recent months as organizations across industries…
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Amazon ‘thwarts largest ever DDoS cyber-attack’
The company’s cloud-computing division says it fended off a flood of data over a three-day period.
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Complexity and size of DDoS attacks have increased
The complexity and size of DDoS attacks in 2019 has increased significantly compared to 2018. A report published by NaWas by NBIP concludes that despite the number of…
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UPnP vulnerability lets attackers steal data, scan internal networks
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which is implemented in billions of networked and IoT devices – personal computers, printers, mobile devices, routers, gaming consoles,…
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Kinda goes without saying, but shore up your admin passwords or be borged by this brute-forcing botnet
Publishing platforms, hosts being targeted by Stealthworker malware Servers are being targeted with a malware attack that uses its infected hosts to brute-force other machines.…
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Kind of goes without saying, but fix your admin passwords or risk getting borged by this brute-forcing botnet
Publishing platforms, hosts being targeted by Stealthworker malware Servers are being targeted with a malware attack that uses its infected hosts to brute-force other machines.…
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Huge Cyberattacks Attempt To Silence Black Rights Movement With DDoS Attacks
After the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests across the U.S., cyberattacks on advocacy groups spiked by an astonishing 1,120 times. It’s unclear who is behind…
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RangeAmp DDoS attacks can take down websites and CDN servers
A team of Chinese academics has found a new way to abuse HTTP packets to amplify web traffic and bring down websites and content delivery networks (CDNs). Named…