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Massive DDoS Attack Shuts Down Iran’s Internet, Tehran Blames Washington

February 22, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

The head of Iran Civil Defense has accused Washington of the latest large-scale cyber-attack that targeted Iranian infrastructure. The coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack affected two mobile operators and partially shut down Iran’s internet for hours. Iranian officials said they stopped the DDoS attack after activating Iran’s digital fortress DZHAFA shield. He added that the frequent cyber-attacks had…

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16 DDoS attacks take place every 60 seconds, rates reach 622 Gbps

February 20, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

With over 23,000 recorded attacks per day, customer-facing enterprise services are bearing the brunt of attacks. Two-thirds of customer-facing enterprise systems are bearing the majority of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, of which 8.4 million were recorded in 2019 alone. DDoS attacks are aimed at disrupting online services. A flood of illegitimate traffic is generated by PCs, Internet of Things (IoT),…

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DDoS Attacks Nearly Double Between Q4 2018 and Q4 2019

February 19, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Peer-to-peer botnets, TCP reflection attacks, and increased activity on Sundays are three DDoS attack trends from last quarter. The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks nearly doubled between the fourth quarter of 2018 and fourth quarter of 2019, researchers found in a new study of DDoS trends. Last quarter brought an increase in the number of attacks relative to the…

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DDoS attacks hitting service providers hard

February 13, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

DDoS attacks are gaining popularity at the expense of bruteforce attacks. Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are “significantly” on the rise, suggest a new report from F5 Labs. The same report also argues brute force attacks, although still present, are losing steam. In the past two years, DDoS attacks accounted for almost half (49 percent) of all cyberattacks, representing…

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Porn Sites Suffer Highest Number of DDoS Attacks

February 10, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

A new study focused on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has found that pornographic websites received by far the most attacks per site last year. To produce their “Global DDoS Threat Landscape” report, researchers at Imperva studied attack data gathered between May and December 2019. Their findings, published yesterday, reveal that websites in the adult entertainment industry received an average of 84.46 attacks…

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Hackers bank big bucks at live hacking event in France

January 31, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Hackers descended on the French city of Lille this week to participate in a live bug bounty event, hosted by European platform YesWeHack. Four organizations participated in the event, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday (January 28-29), as part of the 2020 Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC), an annual conference and trade show. Companies taking part in the…

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Network traffic analysis for IR: Analyzing DDoS attacks

January 30, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

Introduction Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the powerful cyber weapons threat actors use today. We often hear about a website being “brought down by attackers,” and in most cases, a DDoS attack is the main cause behind this failure. A DDoS attack works by using multiple exploited machines as a source to attack network traffic. Each of these…

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Greece: Government websites hit by cyberattack

January 24, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said early Friday that the distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack “led to the malfunction of certain websites.” He said “countermeasures” had been…

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US Cybersecurity Firm Founder Admits Funding DDoS Attacks

January 23, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning by bombarding it with so much junk internet traffic that…

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DDoS: Man who sold website defences pleads guilty to attacks

January 21, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

A man in the US who co-founded a service to protect sites from cyber-attackers has pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Tucker Preston is co-founder of BackConnect, a cyber-security firm that claimed to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation”. However, he was accused of arranging DDoS attacks targeting an unnamed firm. A court document…

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