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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned that more than 2,000 computers in the country have been infected by a strain of malware called DirtyMoe. The...
The maximum attack power rose from 800 Gbps to 1.6 Tbps. UDP floods continue to dominate, constituting 62% of DDoS attacks. In Q3/Q4, the longest attack duration lasted 9 hours, and the average length of attack was approximately an hour.
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad,...
The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839%...
The impact of DDoS attacks extends far beyond mere inconvenience, as they can result in financial losses, compromised data, and erosion of customer trust. Understanding the nature and consequences of DDoS activity is essential for organizations and individuals alike as they strive to protect their online presence and ensure the uninterrupted flow of critical services.
A novel multi-platform threat called NKAbuse has been discovered using a decentralized, peer-to-peer network connectivity protocol known as NKN (short for New Kind of Network) as a communications...
The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of...
Also: Qakbot on verge of permadeath, Australia can't deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun's very bad month Infosec in Brief Cybercriminals working out of Russia go to great lengths...
An active malware campaign is leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed...
Blender has confirmed that recent site outages have been caused by ongoing DDoS attacks that started on Saturday. "Since last Saturday, 18 November, the blender.org servers are under a DDoS attack; bringing down our servers by overloading them with requests," reads the announcement.