Monthly Archives: September 2020

4.83 million DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase

Attackers focused on COVID-era lifelines such as healthcare, e-commerce, and educational services with complex, high-throughput attacks designed to overwhelm and quickly take them down, Netscout reveals. “The first half of 2020 witnessed a radical change in DDoS attack methodology to shorter, faster, harder-hitting complex multi-vector attacks that we expect to continue,” stated Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, Netscout. “Adversaries increased attacks against online platforms and services crucial in an increasingly digital world, such as e-commerce, … More ? The post 4.83 million DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed… just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia

That’s one way of poking the world’s eyes out for a few hours Popular plane-tracking website Flight Radar 24 has been the victim of multiple DDoS attacks over the past few days – and though the site’s operators haven’t attributed blame, some have wondered if a regional conflict may have been the cause.…

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Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020

Attackers shifted tactics in Q2 2020, with a 570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to Nexusguard. Perpetrators used bit-and-piece attacks to launch various amplification and elaborate UDP-based attacks to flood target networks with traffic. Analysts witnessed attacks using much smaller sizes—more than 51% of bit-and-piece attacks were smaller than 30Mbps—to force communications service providers (CSPs) to subject entire networks of traffic to risk mitigation. This causes significant … More ? The post Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020 appeared first on Help Net Security .

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DDoS attacks rise in intensity, sophistication and volume

There have been significant shifts in DDoS attack patterns in the first half of 2020, a Neustar report reveals. There has been a 151% increase in the number of DDoS attacks compared to the same period in 2019. These included the largest and longest attacks that Neustar has ever mitigated at 1.17 Terabits-per-second (Tbps) and 5 days and 18 hours respectively. These figures are representative of the growing number, volume and intensity of network-type cyberattacks … More ? The post DDoS attacks rise in intensity, sophistication and volume appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Product showcase: AppTrana

DDoS Attacks, bots, targeted attacks based on application vulnerabilities, have created a new wave of security challenges. Attackers are constantly targeting internet-connected endpoints and specifically web servers to steal data, crash sites, and hold the business for ransom. A web application is a lucrative target for the attackers as they are critical for most businesses. One of the key risk mitigation steps for defending the business from web application attacks is to have a Web … More ? The post Product showcase: AppTrana appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Sorry we shut you out, says Tutanota: Encrypted email service weathers latest of ongoing DDoS storms

Privacy-conscious biz insists on rolling its own mitigations, though Encrypted email biz Tutanota has apologised for accidentally shutting its own users out while fending off the latest of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials A teenager in America has apparently admitted knocking virtual learning classes offline with a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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

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 NZX to halt trading four days in a row. The latest outage comes less than an hour after NZX revealed it had contingency arrangements in place with the Financial Markets Authority should its website go down again. The arrangements, which come after NZX teamed up with cyber defence experts Akamai Technologies, are for the release of and access to market announcements that are intended to allow trading to continue. NZX chief executive Mark Peterson said he’d been advised by independent cyber specialists that the recent attacks are “among the largest, most well-resourced and sophisticated they have ever seen in New Zealand”. On Friday, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was directed to help the NZX with the attacks amid reports a crime syndicate was demanding Bitcoin payments. In an appearance on The AM Show on Monday, Rush Digital founder Danu Abeysuriya told host Ryan Bridge the attackers can be difficult to track. “Whoever’s doing it has a lot of resources organised – so it could be a really cashed-up criminal gang, which is highly likely, or something more,” he said. “It’s highly likely that it’s a ransom-type attack.” Abeysuriya said technology company Garmin recently paid a ransom of about 10 million Euros following a cyber-attack. Source: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2020/08/nzx-website-goes-down-yet-again.html    

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