Imperva Mitigates Ransom DDoS Attack Measuring 2.5 Million Requests per Second

Imperva Mitigates Ransom DDoS Attack Measuring 2.5 Million Requests per Second

We are only at the beginning of 2022 and it looks like it is going to be an interesting year for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) landscape. We recently mitigated a ...
Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Extortionists target industries with most to lose from an outage Cybercriminals continue to target organizations threatening Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in exchange for a ransom payment, traditionally demanded in bitcoin (BTC) ...

Ransom DDoS: What you need to know now

According to the 2021 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, Ransom DDoS (RDoS) threats are on the rise. Imperva researchers have been monitoring threats against several of our customers where extortionists have demanded ...
Ranson DoS attack chart

Five Common Myths about Ransom DoS Attacks

Did you know that 86% of organizations surveyed in CyberEdge’s Cyberthreat Defense Report this year were compromised by cyberattacks? Since the first known incident in 1989, ransom DoS attacks have become increasingly ...