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Over recent years, these kinds of attacks are increasing, fueling the demand for the best DDoS protection software solutions. According to the report of Market Research Inc, the DDoS protection Software Market is predicted to reach +14% CAGR by 2020 - 2028.
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is accusing threat actors located on Russia networks of performing DDoS attacks on Ukrainian government websites since February 18th. The National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the NSDC state that these DDoS attacks have been massive and have targeted government websites in the defense and security sector. While Ukraine did not directly accuse Russia of the denial of service attacks, they stated that the attackers' IP addresses were located on Russian networks.
"A surge in cryptocurrency costs may have prompted cybercriminals to re-profile some botnets so that the command-and-control servers typically used in DDoS attacks could repurpose infected devices and use their computing power to mine cryptocurrencies instead," researchers said. DDoS of course didn't go away - as people spent more time online in 2020, researchers observed a corresponding spike in DDoS attacks for most of the year.
The servers of British cryptocurrency exchange EXMO were taken offline temporarily after being targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. "We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack on our platform," the exchange said in a notification published earlier today.
Media company Plex has fixed a vulnerability in its media server that could have been used by hackers to strengthen DDoS attacks. In an announcement released last Friday and updated on Saturday, Plex said that it has issued hotfix 66 for Plex Media Server to address the flaw in its product.
A new distributed denial-of-service attack vector has ensnared Plex Media Server systems to amplify malicious traffic against targets to take them offline. "Plex's startup processes unintentionally expose a Plex UPnP-enabled service registration responder to the general Internet, where it can be abused to generate reflection/amplification DDoS attacks," Netscout researchers said in a Thursday alert.
Attackers are taking advantage of a security flaw in the way Plex Media servers look for compatible media devices and streaming clients, says Netscout. Cybercriminals who hire themselves out for DDoS campaigns are beefing up their attacks by abusing a popular media library tool.
Malicious actors have been abusing Plex Media Server to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to application and network performance management company Netscout. A popular personal media library and streaming solution, Plex Media Server can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, to stream content, including that from network-attached storage devices, RAID storage, and the like.
Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android devices in order to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. The botnet propagates through the Android Debug Bridge interface.
Plex Media Server systems are actively being abused by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in Distributed Denial of Service attacks. "We've seen its use as far back as November when activity ramped up, but most of the time, we see its use is in multi-vector attacks rather than as a primary vector, which can result in some uncertainty in finding an exact day it began to be used," Hummel said when asked of the first time PMSSDP was observed as a DDoS attack amplification vector.