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Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.
DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS ...
Updated: This DDoS Attack Unleashed the Most Packets Per Second Ever. Here’s Why That’s Important.
(Updated April 30, 2019 with new data from an even larger attack. Skip directly to the bottom to learn more.) DDoS attacks are usually measured by the amount of bandwidth involved, such ...
State of the Internet Summer 2018 Attack Spotlight: What You Need To Know
Earlier this year, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack in its history, fueled by a new reflector, memcached. The attack targeted one of our software clients and broke through the 1 Tbps ...
DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?
How do DDoS attacks work? And how do we protect our organizations from the growing size and number of attacks? Categories: Business Technology Tags: attackddosDDos attackIoTmemcachedPieter Arntzprotection (Read more...) The post DDoS ...
Attackers Infect Computers with Cyberespionage Malware via Hacked Routers
Security researchers have discovered a new malware framework that’s used for cyberespionage and is delivered to computers through hacked MikroTik routers. Dubbed Slingshot, the malware has a modular architecture and is on ...
Spectre-Inspired Attacks Can Steal Data from Intel SGX Enclaves
Researchers have developed new techniques inspired by the recent Spectre CPU vulnerability to completely compromise the confidentiality of hardware-based secure enclaves created with Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX). SGX is a feature present ...
Memcached,DDoS, RDoS, DDoS-for-Bitcoin
Catalin Cimpanu for Bleeping Computer: Some Memcached DDoS Attackers Are Asking for a Ransom Demand in Monero. Basically, more on the Memcached story but with a little background on earlier DDoS for ...
Massive DDoS attack washes over GitHub
We take a look at the colossal DDoS attack on GitHub, the largest-ever on record. How did threat actors do it, and what can companies do to protect against it? Categories: Criminals ...
GitHub Hit by Record DDoS Attack Through Exposed Memcached Servers
In what might be the largest ever recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, GitHub was hit this week with more than 1TB of malicious traffic per second generated by hijacked Memcached servers. DDoS ...
Some SSO Systems Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass
Some single sign-on (SSO) systems that use SAML are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that can allow hackers to authenticate as other users without knowing their passwords. SSO systems allow users ...
