And growing abuse of cloud – because using hijacked Brazilian cable modems to down sites is so 2013 Dozens of companies over the weekend were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including the largest one yet recorded, or so Cloudflare says.…
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Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed
Neustar Security Services is launching UltraPlatform, a solution that leverages three Neustar Security Services’ offerings critical to protecting organizations’ online assets and infrastructure: an authoritative domain name system (DNS) service, protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and a web application firewall (WAF). To create this unified solution, UltraPlatform blends components from Neustar Security Services’ UltraDNS, UltraDDoS Protect and UltraWAF offerings: UltraDNS is the premier managed authoritative DNS service that ensures accurate, safe and reliable connections. … More ? The post Neustar Security Services UltraPlatform protects enterprises’ digital assets appeared first on Help Net Security .
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DDoS attacks are getting larger and more complex moving towards mobile networks and IoT, which are now used in cyberwarfare. In this Help Net Security video, Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, discusses the most powerful DDoS attacks in the past 12 months. The post The most significant DDoS attacks in the past year appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Upgraded threat, time to patch The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.…
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Zerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems
Cops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service Police around the globe have seized as many as 50 internet domains said to be involved in tens of millions of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. Seven people were collared during the swoop.…
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Sting op takes down 50 DDoS-for-hire domains, seven people collared
Where’s the Night’s Watch when you need them? Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations – including the country’s second-largest bank.…
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Cashdollar – ‘It’s not often we get this kind of story in security’ Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …
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KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command
No online business can afford to neglect malicious bot threats. Attackers and fraudsters increasingly leverage bots to automate and coordinate attacks, driving IT teams and ill-equipped security tools to their limits. Only a full-endpoint, 360° bot protection solution that leverages aggregate global detection signals can save you from unexpected threats. Case in point: A large e-commerce website protected by DataDome’s bot and online fraud management solution recently remained blissfully unaffected throughout a high volume, highly-distributed … More ? The post Out of the blue: Surviving an 18-hour, 39M-request DDoS attack appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign… to mislead the court’ A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the “Glupteba” botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.…
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Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders
Imperva releases The State of Security Within eCommerce 2022 report, a 12-month analysis by Imperva Threat Research of cybersecurity threats targeting the retail industry. Retail industry cybersecurity threats A range of automated threats – from account takeover, credit card fraud, web scraping, API abuses, Grinch bots, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – were a persistent challenge for the eCommerce industry, threatening online sales and customer satisfaction. The continued barrage of attacks on retailers’ … More ? The post API abuses and attacks create new challenges for retailers appeared first on Help Net Security .
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