Security News

Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks
2018-04-16 12:05

Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging...

SAP's Business Client can own entire apps, DDOS them into dust
2018-04-11 03:58

And that's the worst of ten patches awaiting lucky, lucky SAP admins SAP has issued its >April security update, which brings a waiting world news of ten patch-worthy problems.…

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks
2018-04-06 19:24

Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector.

Financial Services DDoS Attacks Tied to Reaper Botnet
2018-04-05 16:59

Recorded Future's "Insikt" threat intelligence research group has linked the Mirai variant IoTroop (aka Reaper) botnet with attacks on the Netherlands financial sector in January 2018. The...

Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks?
2018-03-26 14:18

As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to their DDoS...

You Can DDoS an Organization for Just $10 per Hour: Cybercrime Report
2018-03-22 16:54

The cost of having an organization targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for an hour is as low as $10, cybersecurity firm Armor says. The low cost of launching such attacks...

The Growing Threat from Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks
2018-03-22 13:03

Multivector distributed denial-of-service attacks are having a bigger impact than simple volumetric attacks, says Brian McCann, president of Netscout's security business unit, who analyzes the...

Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7100 Sites in Last 10 Days
2018-03-09 14:18

Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique...

Memcached DDoS Attacks: 95,000 Servers Vulnerable to Abuse
2018-03-08 13:33

Massive 1.7 Tbps Reflection/Amplification Attack Exploits Open Memcached ServersNearly 100,000 servers that run the open source Memcached utiltity appear to remain vulnerable to being abused to...

'Kill Switch' to Mitigate Memcached DDoS Attacks — Flush 'Em All
2018-03-08 07:03

Security researchers have discovered a "kill switch" that could help companies protect their websites under massive DDoS attack launched using vulnerable Memcached servers. Massive Memcached...