distributed denial of service
Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure
Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
Emulating the Persistent and Stealthy Ebury Linux Malware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that seeks to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with Ebury Linux malware. Despite previous arrests and actions against key perpetrators, Ebury continues ...
Why Imperva is a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion
This is our second consecutive year as a champion of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Nowadays, IT security is everyone’s responsibility, and that’s something we take very seriously. Cybersecurity Awareness Month raises awareness of ...
Top Reasons that DDoS Protection Services is More Crucial Than Ever
DDoS attack protection is comparable to the airbag systems in cars or life jackets on airplanes. You do not realize and appreciate its true value until it is actually required.. The post ...
Shielding Applications to Prevent DDoS Attacks
A software-defined perimeter can be an integral tool in protecting against DDoS attacks One common security threat that corporate networks, applications and web-based services have been failing to effectively defend against is ...
Man who made $542,925 renting out DDoS services sentenced to prison
A 21-year-old man who made half a million dollars running DDoS-for-hire services has been sentenced to prison for 13 months. Between August 2015 to November 2017 Sergiy P. Usatyuk of Orland Park, ...
DDoS-for-Hire Sites Bounce Back
Despite a recent crackdown by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), there has been a more than 400% increase in the volume of attacks being launched via DDoS-for-hire sites in the last ...
Pulling the Rug Out on DDoS Carpet Bombers
Network attacks driven by traffic, such as DDoS, have long been classified by a capacity threshold or baseline limit. When traffic surpasses that limit, an alarm is triggered to indicate an attack ...
Police Shut Down Largest DDoS-for-Hire Marketplace
A large marketplace that allowed users to rent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) infrastructure from hackers has been shut down following a global law enforcement operation led by police agencies from the Netherlands and ...
Attackers Infect Computers with Cyberespionage Malware via Hacked Routers
Security researchers have discovered a new malware framework that’s used for cyberespionage and is delivered to computers through hacked MikroTik routers. Dubbed Slingshot, the malware has a modular architecture and is on ...
