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DDoS cyberattacks have skyrocketed this year. Just ask the New Zealand stock exchange

August 31, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) website has gone down again in what appears to be the latest disruption caused by cyber attackers. The NZX website has been targeted by repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the last week, beginning last Tuesday. Such attacks disrupt service by saturating the network with significant volumes of internet traffic, and have caused…

RangeAmp DDoS attacks can take down websites and CDN servers

May 28, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

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 RangeAmp, this new Denial-of-Service (DoS) technique exploits incorrect implementations of the HTTP “Range Requests” attribute. HTTP Range Requests are part of the HTTP standard and allow clients (usually browsers) to request only…

NXNSAttack technique can be abused for large-scale DDoS attacks

May 21, 2020 - admin - 0 Comment

New vulnerability in DNS server software can be leveraged for DDoS attacks with an 1620x amplification factor. A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research team, NXNSAttack impacts recursive DNS servers and the process of DNS…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Worst DNS attacks and how to mitigate them

July 22, 2019 - admin - 0 Comment

DNS threats, including DNS hijacking, tunneling, phishing, cache poisoning and DDoS attacks, are all on the rise. The Domain Name System remains under constant attack, and there seems to be no end in sight as threats grow increasingly sophisticated. DNS, known as the internet’s phonebook, is part of the global internet infrastructure that translates between familiar names and the numbers…

Cloudflare glitched and took half of the internet with it

June 24, 2019 - admin - 0 Comment

If you can read this, you’re one of the lucky few. Ah, the day the internet died. At least, that’s what it felt like today, waking up to a widespread outage of popular sites and services. While the initial cause wasn’t known, internet service provider Cloudflare posted that a misconfigured part of its network was likely the cause. Maybe we…

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