Monthly Archives: October 2022

Akamai Prolexic enhancements increase protection against rising DDoS threats

Akamai announced a significant evolution of its DDoS protection platform (Prolexic) with a global rollout of new, fully software-defined scrubbing centers, which will extend its dedicated defense capacity to 20 Tbps and accelerate future product innovations. In the wake of increasingly sophisticated and record-setting DDoS attacks worldwide, the move further enables Akamai Prolexic to defend customers from the largest, multi-terabit attacks and provide better performance and reliability for online businesses of any size, anywhere on … More ? The post Akamai Prolexic enhancements increase protection against rising DDoS threats appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Key observations on DDoS attacks in H1 2022

In the first half of 2022, the amount of DDoS attacks increased by 75.6% compared to the second half of 2021, according to new Nexusguard research revealed in the company’s DDoS Statistical Report for 1HY 2022. In this Help Net Security video, Juniman Kasman, CTO at Nexusguard, talks about how, while the total number of attacks did grow, the average (0.59 Gbps) and maximum (232.0 Gbps) attack sizes each decreased by 56% and 66.8%, respectively, … More ? The post Key observations on DDoS attacks in H1 2022 appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline

How’s that boot taste? Updated   Russian miscreants claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports’ websites offline on Monday morning in what appeared to be a large-scale, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…

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Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene

Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service A Russia based threat group that set up a malware distribution shop earlier this year is behind a Swiss Army knife-like botnet that comes with a range of other malicious capabilities, from stealing information to mining cryptocurrency.…

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