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Magic Transit allows customers to send any packet of data across Cloudflare’s network

Cloudflare, a leading Internet security, performance, and reliability company, announced Magic Transit, a product that extends the benefits of Cloudflare’s network to customers’ on-premise and data center networks. Magic Transit allows customers to send any packet of data, of any protocol, across Cloudflare’s network. Magic Transit deployed in front of an enterprise network protects it from DDoS attack and enables provisioning of a full suite of virtual network functions, including IP packet filtering and firewalling, … More ? The post Magic Transit allows customers to send any packet of data across Cloudflare’s network appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms

Botnets in 2018 continued to use DDoS as their primary weapon to attack high-speed networks, according to NSFOCUS. Continuous monitoring and research of botnets discovered significant changes taking place in the coding of malware used to create bots, operations, and maintenance of botnets and IP Chain-Gangs. Throughout 2018, NSFOCUS developed profiles on 82 IP Chain-Gangs, groups of bots from multiple botnets acting in concert during specific cyber-attack campaigns. Understanding botnets in general and IP Chain-Gangs, … More ? The post Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size

Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced significant enhancements to the Imperva Application Security portfolio, now offering targeted protection against account takeover (ATO), an industry-leading approach to detecting and blocking malicious attacks targeted at APIs, as well as partnerships with leading API vendors and an unprecedented three-second SLA for mitigating any type of DDoS attack. These capabilities help customers further harden their defenses against rapidly evolving … More ? The post Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Global communications service providers struggling to fend off growing number of DDoS attacks

Global communications service providers, whose businesses are predicated on continuous availability and reliable service levels, are struggling to fend off a growing number of DDoS attacks against their networks. A lack of timely and actionable intelligence is seen as a major obstacle to DDoS protection, according to A10 Networks. The critical need for DDoS protection The A10 Networks study conducted by the Ponemon Institute highlights the critical need for DDoS protection that provides higher levels … More ? The post Global communications service providers struggling to fend off growing number of DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Microsoft wants to improve routing security

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, announced that Microsoft has joined the program whose primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system. Routing security is vital to the future and stability of the Internet. Last year alone, there were 12,600 routing outages or incidents such as route hijacking and leaks that led to large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, stolen … More ? The post Microsoft wants to improve routing security appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws

Attackers are actively exploiting recently fixed vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic and the Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence to deliver ransomware, mine cryptocurrency and make the compromised machines participate in DDoS attacks. The Oracle WebLogic attacks CVE-2019-2725 is a deserialization remote command execution vulnerability that affects all Oracle WebLogic versions that have two specific components enabled. It was publicly revealed on April 21 and Oracle published an out-of-band security fix for it on April 25. … More ? The post Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws appeared first on Help Net Security .

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The latest DDoS attacks are mostly multi-vector and morph over time

DDoS attacks continue to be an effective means to distract and confuse security teams while inflicting serious damage to brands, according to Neustar. Also, when comparing Q1 2019 vs. Q1 2018, the company has registered a 200 percent increase of attacks on directly provisioned customers. Report findings The largest attack size observed by them in Q1 2019 was 587 Gbps in volume, and the longest duration for a single attack was nearly a day and … More ? The post The latest DDoS attacks are mostly multi-vector and morph over time appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites

The FBI’s shutdown of the 15 largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters) reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same period last year. Along with the fewer total attacks, the average size decreased by 85 percent as did the maximum attack size by 24 percent, indicating the FBI crackdown was effective in reducing the global impact of DDoS attacks. However, booter websites are poised to make … More ? The post Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites appeared first on Help Net Security .

Denial of Service vulnerability discovered in Triconex TriStation Software Suite Emulator

Applied Risk ICS Security Consultant Tom Westenberg discovered a DoS vulnerability in an emulated version of the Triconex TriStation Software Suite. Triconex is a Schneider Electric brand which supplies systems and products in regards to critical control and industrial safety-shutdown technology. The Triconex Emulator is software that allows users to emulate and execute TriStation 1131 applications without connecting to a Tricon, Trident, or Tri-GP controller. Using the Emulator, users can test applications in an offline … More ? The post Denial of Service vulnerability discovered in Triconex TriStation Software Suite Emulator appeared first on Help Net Security .

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IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks

IoT devices in synchronised attacks on targets represent a growing part of global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) weapon arsenals. There is a significant potential for attackers to use an IoT-related protocol, the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), deployed on IoT devices to marshal attacks. The A10 Networks report on the state of DDoS weapons in the first quarter of 2019 examines the types of weapons and attacks being used and where they are coming from. … More ? The post IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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