DDoS stories

"The impact of phantom flood attacks should not be underestimated. They can cause major disruption to the customer experience when they go undetected.">>

"The motivations behind these huge attacks are unclear at this point.">>

Cyberattacks continue to have a dramatic impact on private and public organisations and governments worldwide.>>

As more essential services are delivered digitally, availability becomes the most pressing concern, writes Cisco ThousandEyes solutions architect Mike Hicks.>>

This is likely due to the region's acceleration of DevOps programs and practices during COVID.>>

Internet infrastructure provider Vocus has confirmed it was hit with a DDoS attack which took its internet down for about an hour today, affecting people across the country.>>

The pandemic has driven large scale growth in online banking, dramatically increasing the volume of sensitive customer data that’s available to steal, Imperva states.>>

Research finds RDDoS attacks are a more significant threat to organisations than ransomware.>>

Radware’s North America vice president Bob Simpson says that there has been a rapid shift to cloud - and more sophisticated cyber attacks to go with it.>>

Scammers have been looking for ways to amplify DDoS attacks.>>

"The window between the disclosing and weaponising of new vulnerabilities is getting very slim.">>

"This is the first time we are seeing the bad actors selectively target organisations and favour those with unprotected assets for their ransom letters.">>

A new wave of DDoS extortion campaigns by Fancy Lazarus has been identified by Link11.>>

The DDoS attack report analyses attack activity by industries, attack vectors, DDoS attacks on applications and on-premise versus cloud.>>

Modern cloud architectures are moving from monolithic, tiered models to distributed microservices-based architectures, writes Gigamon CTO Shehzad Merchant.>>

By the end of 2020, the extortionists started circling back to earlier victims who did not pay ransom in earlier attempts, reusing their attack research.>>

One of the ways of preventing DDoS attacks is through the use of what is called an origin shield.>>

Zscaler has announced its new Ransomware Report highlighting the most prolific ransomware actors, their attack tactics, and the industries being targeted.>>

The ways in which bad actors can use DNS to mount attacks are numerous. Here are some of the most popular ones.>>

Surprisingly, a vast volume of malicious traffic can reach a residential device, writes Radware head of research Daniel Smith.>>

“As opposed to other 'all in one' solutions that can be vulnerable to platform outages, our distinct, purpose-built DDoS solutions are architected to ensure multiple levels of resilience.">>

There was a 154% increase in the number of cyber attacks between 2019 and 2020, with growth in ransom-related DDoS.>>

“A DDoS attack was foreseeable, and an attack of sufficient magnitude to take down servers — and with them NZX’s market announcement platform — was at least possible and should have been planned for,” the FMA says in its review. >>

The second wave of attacks in December and January targeted organisations that were hit the first time and did not respond or pay the ransom. >>