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Nexusguard has announced a new program that empowers CSPs to easily launch anti-DDoS protection for their customers. Nexusguard will provide 10,000 Gbps of DDoS-mitigating hardware to CSPs around the world.
A recently developed botnet named "Simps" has emerged from the cyber-underground to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks on gaming targets and others, using internet of things nodes. According to the Uptycs' threat research team, Simps was first seen in April being dropped on IoT devices by the Gafgyt botnet.
Some DNS resolvers are affected by a vulnerability that can be exploited to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against authoritative DNS servers, a group of researchers warned this week. Google and Cisco, both of which provide widely used DNS services, have deployed patches for TsuNAME, but the researchers believe many servers are still vulnerable to attacks.
Attackers can use a newly disclosed domain name server vulnerability publicly known as TsuNAME as an amplification vector in large-scale reflection-based distributed denial of service attacks targeting authoritative DNS servers. In simpler terms, authoritative DNS servers translate web domains to IP addresses and pass this info to recursive DNS servers that get queried by regular users' web browsers when trying to connect to a specific website.
Belgian ISP Belnet has restored its service after a massive distributed denial of service attack earlier this week that cut off Internet access to numerous government, public, scientific and educational agencies, including Belgium's Parliament and some law-enforcement agencies. Upon investigation, it seems the attack-a coordinated effort targeting the Belgium government-also affected other ISPs in what was the largest DDoS attack the country has seen, according to reports.
Link11 has released its DDoS report for Q1 2021 which revealed the number of DDoS attacks continued to grow. DDoS attackers stick to their target The number of attacks continued to increase: 128% increase in the number of attacks than Q1 2020.
DDoS attacks have dominated the charts in terms of frequency, sophistication, and geo-distribution over the last year. While there are no signs of DDoS attacks going away anytime soon, how do organizations ensure that their Internet assets are protected against threats of any size or kind?
Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have incorporated code from the infamous Mirai botnet, researchers have discovered. Gafgyt is a botnet that was first uncovered in 2014.
Cybersecurity firm NETSCOUT has released a new report detailing the state of DDoS attacks during the past year and it leads with an unfortunate new statistic: 2020 was the first year that the number of observed DDoS attacks crossed the 10-million mark. The most DDoS attacks recorded in a single month hit a new high at 929,000, and average DDoS attacks per month topped 2019 averages by between 100,000 and 150,000.
Netscout announced findings from its bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report, punctuated by a record-setting 10,089,687 DDoS attacks observed during 2020. Attackers paid particular attention to vital pandemic industries such as e-commerce, streaming services, online learning, and healthcare generating a 20% year-over-year increase in attack frequency over 2019 plus a 22% increase in the last six months of 2020.