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Much like sappers getting behind enemy lines to attack and destroy critical infrastructure, threat actors know how to avoid tripwires and stay below the threshold of detection while initiating an attack. To counter those efforts, organizations need to gain a better understanding of the new attacker toolbox and employ solutions that take a more holistic view of defense.
Cannazon, one of the largest dark web marketplaces for buying marijuana products, shut down last week after suffering a debilitating distributed denial of service attack. The admins posted that message on November 23, 2021, and today, Cannazon went offline, allegedly forever.
There are four key considerations each business must assess to select the right DDoS protection solution. A truly effective DDoS protection solution must be comprehensive enough to mitigate all these attack vectors.
Link11 has released new data from its network on the development of the DDoS threat: The number of attacks remains at a very high level in Q3 2021. While single attack methods are declining, multi-vector attacks are becoming the norm in the DDoS threat landscape.
Telnyx is the latest VoIP telephony provider targeted with distributed denial-of-service attacks, causing worldwide outages since yesterday. Starting November 9th at approximately 11 PM EST, Telnyx was targeted with a DDoS attack causing all telephony services to fail or be delayed.
A critical security bug in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway could allow cyberattackers to crash entire corporate networks without needing to authenticate.Citrix also addressed a lower-severity bug that is likewise due to uncontrolled resource consumption.
Q3 beat every record in terms of daily number of DDoS attacks, according to a new report from Kaspersky. The total number of DDoS attacks was up 24% compared to Q3 2020 while the number of advanced, "Smart" attacks was up 31% over the same time period.
"July started off relatively quietly, but towards the middle of the month the average daily count of DDoS attacks exceeded 1,000, with a whopping 8,825 attacks on August 18," the report said. More than 40 percent of DDoS attacks during the third quarter targeted operations in the U.S., followed by Hong Kong and China, the report found.
"More DDoS attacks were blocked during the first nine months of 2021 than all of 2020," said Pascal Geenens, director of threat intelligence for Radware. "During the third quarter, DDoS records for large volumetric attacks were broken across three continents. At the same time, phantom floods, or micro attacks that typically fly below the radar, increased. The reality is organizations need more granular detection and multi-layer defenses to protect against stealthier and more complex DDoS attacks."
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a flash alert warning private industry partners that the HelloKitty ransomware gang has added distributed denial-of-service attacks to their arsenal of extortion tactics. In a Friday notification coordinated with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI said that the ransomware group would take their victims' official websites down in DDoS attacks if they didn't comply with the ransom demands.