46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year Google says it has blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.…
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Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months
A ‘sophisticated, global botnet’ held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period.…
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Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe
Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services An emerging and fast-growing threat group is using a unique business model to offer cybercriminals a broad range of services that span from leaked databases and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to hacking scripts and, in the future, potentially ransomware.…
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Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS launched a new, innovative AI-based solution enabling its customers to automatically and instantaneously block a large proportion of DDoS attacks thus simplifying operations and minimizing risk to their businesses. The solution leverages NETSCOUT’s ATLASnetwork, an unmatched source of visibility into DDoS attack activity on the Internet. Multiple ATLAS datasets are analyzed, curated, and correlated using artificial intelligence. This automated intelligent pipeline is developed using NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) expertise … More ? The post NETSCOUT launches AI solution to help customers block DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .
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G-Core Labs’ XDP-based DDoS protection platform filters bad traffic across a network of high capacity CDNs Sponsored Post If you do any sort of business via the web, the damage caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack could be catastrophic for your bottom line.…
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How to survive a SYN flood attack
ThreatX launched its API Protection Quick Start Program, designed to help organizations better protect their APIs by rapidly deploying real-time protection against botnet, DDoS and complex, multi-mode attacks. APIs are a gold mine for attackers because they enable applications to share information and are increasingly used to streamline communication between consumers and business partners. As a result, the adoption of APIs has far outpaced security teams’ ability to protect against threats, leaving the systems they … More ? The post ThreatX API Protection Quick Start Program enables businesses to extend security to their APIs appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks.…
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Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Zero-day bug exploited by attackers via macro-less Office documents (CVE-2022-30190) A newly numbered Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) is being exploited in the wild via specially crafted Office documents (without macros), security researchers are warning. FluBot takedown: Law enforcement takes control of Android spyware’s infrastructure An international law enforcement operation involving 11 countries has disrupted the spreading of the FluBot Android … More ? The post Week in review: Macro-less Office documents zero-day bug, FluBot takedown, growing DDoS threats appeared first on Help Net Security .
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Week in review: Macro-less Office documents zero-day bug, FluBot takedown, growing DDoS threats
Redmond claims the numbers are scary, but won’t release them Microsoft has sounded the alarm on DDoS malware called XorDdos that targets Linux endpoints and servers.…
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Microsoft sounds the alarm on — wait for it — a Linux botnet
Sysrv-K malware infects unpatched tin, Microsoft warns The latest variant of the Sysrv botnet malware is menacing Windows and Linux systems with an expanded list of vulnerabilities to exploit, according to Microsoft.…
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Monero-mining botnet targets Windows, Linux web servers