Monthly Archives: February 2020

8.4 million: Number of DDoS attacks researchers saw last year alone

Netscout released the findings of its Threat Intelligence Report for the second half of 2019, which also incorporates insights from its 15th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) survey. The report underscores the proliferation of risks faced by global enterprises and service providers. These organizations must now not only defend IT infrastructures, but also manage risks caused by increased DDoS attacks on customer-facing services and applications, mobile networks, and unsecured IoT devices. “We’ve uncovered some … More ? The post 8.4 million: Number of DDoS attacks researchers saw last year alone appeared first on Help Net Security .

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A10 Networks vThunder TPS: Providing 100 Gbps throughput in a single virtual appliance

A10 Networks announced it has delivered the industry’s highest-performance virtual DDoS defense solution with its software version of the Thunder Threat Protection System (TPS) solution, vThunder TPS. The enhanced vThunder TPS provides 100 Gbps throughput in a single virtual appliance and can be expanded to 800 Gbps with eight-way clustering. As a result, service providers can build elastic DDoS defenses that can be incrementally scaled during wartime when peak capacity is required. vThunder TPS is … More ? The post A10 Networks vThunder TPS: Providing 100 Gbps throughput in a single virtual appliance appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Week in review: The future of DNS security, acquiring cyber talent in 2020, new issue of (IN)SECURE

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations 63% of enterprise professionals have created at least one account without their IT department being aware of it, and two-thirds of those have created two or more, the results of a recent 1Password survey have revealed. 12,000+ Jenkins servers can be exploited to launch, amplify DDoS attacks A vulnerability (CVE-2020-2100) in 12,000+ internet-facing Jenkins … More ? The post Week in review: The future of DNS security, acquiring cyber talent in 2020, new issue of (IN)SECURE appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts

Mac threats growing faster than their Windows counterparts for the first time ever, with nearly twice as many Mac threats detected per endpoint as Windows threats, according to Malwarebytes. In addition, cybercriminals continue to focus on business targets with a diversification of threat types and attack strategies in 2019. Emotet and TrickBot were back in 2019 Trojan-turned-botnets Emotet and TrickBot made a return in 2019 to target organizations alongside new ransomware families, such as Ryuk, … More ? The post Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts appeared first on Help Net Security .

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12,000+ Jenkins servers can be exploited to launch, amplify DDoS attacks

A vulnerability (CVE-2020-2100) in 12,000+ internet-facing Jenkins servers can be abused to mount and amplify reflective DDoS attacks against internet hosts, Radware researchers have discovered. The vulnerability can also be triggered by a single, spoofed UDP packet to launch DoS attacks against those same vulnerable Jenkins servers, by forcing them into an infinite loop of replies that can’t be stopped unless one of the servers is rebooted or has its Jenkins service restarted. About the … More ? The post 12,000+ Jenkins servers can be exploited to launch, amplify DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

The frequency of DDoS attacks depends on the day and time

Multivector and cloud computing attacks have been rising over the last twelve months, according to Link11. The share of multivector attacks – which target and misuse several protocols – grew significantly from 46% in the first quarter to 65% in the fourth quarter. DNS amplification most popular for DDoS attackers DNS amplification was the most used technique for DDoS attackers in 2019 having been found in one-third of all attacks. The attackers exploited insecure DNS … More ? The post The frequency of DDoS attacks depends on the day and time appeared first on Help Net Security .