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Groundbreaking Prosecution Targeted Attackers Who Demanded Bitcoin PayoffsIn a groundbreaking prosecution, two individuals in Ukraine have been sentenced for running extortion campaigns that...
The bar has been raised. As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS...
GitHub Disrupted by 1.5 Tbps Onslaught as New DDoS Attack Type EmergesSay hello to a new type of DDoS attack: UDP amplification via internet-facing servers running memcached, an open source...
On Tuesday, 27 February, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS...
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Automating out of the skill gap sinkhole When thinking about the bigger picture, information security leaders must aim...
This week's DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. Interestingly, attackers did...
Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.
Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers exposed to the...
Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of...