Australian spending on public cloud services is expected to reach $6.5 billion this year according to Gartner

A10 Network’s Adrian Taylor uses findings from a number of reports to illustrate his point that advances in technology are facilitating cybercrime.

"The increase in the impact and complexity of attacks continues unabated," says Link11 COO Marc Wilczek.

“European political organisations will have the same access to Google’s defense technology that previously was only available to news organisations and human rights groups."

“From the meteoric rise in cryptomining to massive data breaches and DDoS attacks, there was no shortage of cyber-disruption."

New data indicates attackers preyed on the large attack surface of ASN-level communications service providers with a ‘bit-and-piece’ approach.

An A10 Networks exec talks 5G, software-defined networks, and the continuing evolution needed for a modern cloud environment.

Cybercriminals have been moving towards a ‘gig economy’ – an underground community of malicious actors exchanging services.

The cloud DDoS prevention, app delivery controller, and web app firewall expert is another step toward a total enterprise security portfolio.

The report explores changes in the threat landscape over the past year, uncovering trends and how they are expected to impact cybersecurity in 2019.

Some forms of encryption technology can make identifying and blocking some threats more difficult.

DDoS attacks can cripple an organisation, a network or even a country and recent attacks have been larger and more complex than ever.

The next evolution of ransomware, escalating nation-state attacks, biometric hacking, Wi-Fi protocol security, and Die Hard fiction becomes reality.

"Many providers limit their uptime to pure hardware system availability, but not to service or process availability."

Overall, between July and September, DDoS botnets attacked targets in 82 countries.

DDoS attacks are cheaper than ever for attackers, lucrative for the attack service provider and financially and operationally crippling for the victim.

Research found a 35% increase DDoS attacks using public cloud server-based botnets from the previous 12 months.

NETSCOUT has released its Arbor Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS) report for the first half of 2018, exclusive on SecurityBrief.

. There is, without a doubt, a growing awareness of the sheer volume of these attacks and they are hitting businesses of all sizes.

China and the US-dominated as the top two sources of DDoS attacks in Q1, contributing 15.2% and 14.2% of the botnets, respectively.

The reality is that many of the DDoS attacks happening today are designed to disrupt - not to steal something.

Asia Pacific will experience a 36% CAGR for botnet detection solutions and services, exceeding growth rates in North America and Europe.

Europol has announced another major takedown that is a triumph for the ‘good guys’, but experts say it only shows how easy it is for cybercriminals.

A10 Networks has harnessed the power of machine learning to protect its customers against DDoS attacks with the launch of A10 One-DDoS Protection.