Hit-and-run DDoS attacks causing havoc for businesses

Ransomware attacks may be grabbing the headlines, but there’s more for businesses to worry about. According to a new report from cybersecurity firm Radware, so-called hit-and-run distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are causing havoc for businesses left and right. Unlike traditional DDoS attacks, in which an attacker uses a botnet to send huge amounts of traffic to a server …

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DDoS attacks still aren’t going away

While the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remained relatively flat in the first quarter of 2021, the scale of attacks grew by almost a third (31 percent) quarter-on-quarter, showing that DDoS attacks are still a major threat to businesses. These were the findings published in the Q1 DDoS Attack Report from cybersecurity firm Radware, which suggests the …

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Belgian government network taken offline following DDoS attack

The IT network operated by the Belgian government suffered a large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack earlier this week, knocking most of its websites and back-end offline. Described by The Record as “massive”, the attack targeted Belnet, an ISP that gets its funding through the Belgian budget. It provides internet access for the Belgian government, educational institutions, ministries and …

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DDoS attackers turn attention to telecoms firms

Of all the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that happened in the first quarter of 2021, the biggest percentage targeted the telecommunications industry, a new report from Cloudflare suggests. Laying out the results in a blog post, Cloudflare’s Vivek Ganti and Omer Yoachimik said that 0.022 percent of attack traffic targeted telecoms, followed by consumer services (0.014 percent) and …

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A record number of DDoS attacks took place in 2020

In 2020, for the first time ever, more than 10 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were recorded in a single year. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Netscout, whose ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) observed a total of 10,089,687 attacks last year. Compared to 8.5 million attacks in 2019, that’s a 17 …

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Hackers are using DDoS attacks to extort companies for ransom

Criminals are no longer limiting themselves to encrypting sensitive data before demanding a ransom from the victim. They have also started executing what’s known as Ransom Distributed Denial of Service attacks, or RDaaS, and it’s exactly as it sounds. In an attack of this kind, criminals threaten a company with a series of crippling DDoS attacks, unless payment is made …

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New DDoS attack takes inspiration from acoustic beat

There is a new type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in town, and it’s inspired by an acoustic beat. Spotted by web infrastructure firm Cloudflare, the attack sends traffic in pulsating waves instead of going for all out bombardment, simulating the beating of a drum. The goal of this new type of attack is likely to deceive security …

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DDoS attacks are now more frequent and complex

According to a new report from cybersecurity firm Netscout, DDoS attacks have are becoming more frequent and complex as a result of Covid-19 and the remote working explosion. The report, which analyzes the effects of remote working on the overall cybersecurity posture in the UK, states that cybercriminals “continued their impressively efficient efforts to syphon in the latest IoT exploits …

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