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Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites
2019-03-21 06:00

The FBI’s shutdown of the 15 largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters) reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same...

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%'
2019-03-19 23:10

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI's takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…

ThreatList: DDoS Attack Sizes Drop 85 Percent Post FBI Crackdown
2019-03-19 12:00

The FBI's crackdown on 15 DDoS-for-hire sites appears to have had an impact on DDoS attacks, the average size for which dropped 85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, a new report found.

DDoS attacks on the rise: Largest attack ever hit 1.7 Tb/second
2019-03-18 13:09

Hackers are increasingly trying to steal data instead of money from victims, according to Positive Technologies.

IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks
2019-03-08 06:53

IoT devices in synchronised attacks on targets represent a growing part of global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) weapon arsenals. There is a significant potential for attackers to use an...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Admin Pleads Guilty
2019-03-02 13:37

An Illinois man pleaded guilty earlier this week for owning, administrating, and supporting an illegal booting service that launched millions of distributed denial of service attacks, the U.S....

Microsoft fixes web server DDoS bug
2019-02-22 12:51

Overzealous use of HTTP/2 flow control settings in IIS could have brought servers to their knees.

Average DDoS attack volumes grew by 194% in 12 months
2019-02-11 05:00

The volume and complexity of DDoS attacks continued to grow in Europe during the final quarter of 2018, according to Link11. While Link11’s Security Operations Center (LSOC) registered 13,910...

Longest DDoS attack since 2015 lasts 329 hours
2019-02-08 16:29

While the number of DDoS attacks have declined, they have become much more sophisticated, according to a Kaspersky Lab report.

ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers
2019-02-07 20:21

Trends in DDoS attacks show a evolution beyond Mirai code and point to next-gen botnets that are better hidden and have a greater level of persistence on devices – making them "far more dangerous."