Scandinavian banks hit with DDoS attacks
The new year started poorly for Finnish bank OP Pohjola Group and its customers: the latter have been prevented from executing their online banking transactions by a DDoS …
76% of organizations have suffered a DNS attack
Seventy-six percent of organizations in the U.S. and U.K. have suffered a DNS attack, with 49 percent experiencing one in the past 12 months, according to Cloudmark. The most …
Cyber attacks now longer than ever
Cyber attacks have reached a tipping point in terms of quantity, length, complexity and targets. As cyber threats are growing and expanding to new targets, 52% of respondents …
DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
The newest up-and-coming countries of origin for DDoS attacks will be Vietnam, India and Indonesia in 2015, according to Black Lotus. While these countries don’t have …
Attackers shellshock, take over devices running on BusyBox
ShellShock, the remote code execution bug (CVE-2014-6271) affecting GNU Bash, the command interpreter present on many Unix systems and Linux distributions, is still being …
4 million UPnP devices may be vulnerable to attack
Akamai has observed the use of a new reflection and amplification DDoS attack that deliberately misuses communications protocols that come enabled on millions of home and …
133 DDoS attacks over 100Gbps so far in 2014
Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for Q3 2014 showing a remarkable increase in Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) reflection attacks. Arbor monitored very …
Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise
In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest …
Mitigations for Spike DDoS toolkit-powered attacks
Akamai Technologies released, through the company’s Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), a new cybersecurity threat advisory that alerts …
High-volume DDoS attacks on the rise
A continuing trend of DDoS attacks are short in duration and repeated frequently. In parallel, high-volume and high-rate DDoS attacks were on the upswing in the first half of …
How a large ISP fights DDoS attacks with a custom solution
DDoS attacks are a growing problem. In July, Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data derived from its ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure that shows a surge in …
Linux systems infiltrated and controlled in a DDoS botnet
Akamai Technologies is alerting enterprises to a high-risk threat of IptabLes and IptabLex infections on Linux systems. Malicious actors may use infected Linux systems to …
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