Security News > 2017 > August > Here we go again: DDoS attacks on the rise! (Help Net Security)
2017-08-23 13:12
Newly released data shows that DDoS and web application attacks are on the rise once again, according to Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report. Contributing to this rise was the PBot DDoS malware which re-emerged as the foundation for the strongest DDoS attacks seen by Akamai this quarter. In the case of PBot, malicious actors used decades-old PHP code to generate the largest DDoS attack observed by Akamai in the … More →
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