Yet another pathetic ‘stunt’ from pro-Kremlin criminals The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.…
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Version 3.0.7 of the popular OpenSSL cryptographic library is out, with fixes for CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, two high-severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the punycode decoder that could lead to crashes (i.e., denial of service) or potentially remote code execution. CVE-2022-3602, whose existence was preannounced by the OpenSSL Project team a week ago, has luckily turned out to be less dangerous than initially thought. So the much feared *Critical* #OpenSSL turns out to be “just” a … More ? The post High-severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786) appeared first on Help Net Security .
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High-severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786)
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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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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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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Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline
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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Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene
The latest Internet Security Report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab shows a reduction in overall malware detections from the peaks seen in the first half of 2021, along with an increase in threats for Chrome and Microsoft Office and the ongoing Emotet botnet resurgence. Office exploits on the rise “While overall malware attacks in Q2 fell off from the all-time highs seen in previous quarters, over 81% of detections came via TLS encrypted connections, continuing … More ? The post Office exploits continue to spread more than any other category of malware appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.…
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Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack
Neustar Security Services has expanded its distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack mitigation scrubbing capacity to more than 15 Terabits per second (Tbps) across its worldwide network. Neustar Security Services is committed to maintaining the dedicated DDoS and application security network. The company uses multiple tier 1 providers, along with other providers assisting with higher-performing localized presence, to ingest inbound clean (legitimate) and dirty (attack) traffic and then deploys additional partners to route the clean traffic back to … More ? The post Neustar Security Services enhances its DDoS attack mitigation scrubbing capacity to 15 Tbps appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Radware released a report revealing that the number of malicious DDoS attacks climbed by 203% compared to the first six months of 2021. This Help Net Security video provides information about the rise of DDoS activity launched by patriotic hacktivists. The post DDoS activity launched by patriotic hacktivists is on the rise appeared first on Help Net Security .
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DDoS activity launched by patriotic hacktivists is on the rise