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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 07:30

Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi...

7 key global DDoS trends revealed (Help Net Security)
2015-10-01 11:15

Neustar released the findings of its latest DDoS report, including key trends. The global research reveals more activity around targeted, smaller assaults aimed at distracting firms’ IT departments wh...

XOR DDoS botnet launching attacks from compromised Linux machines (Help Net Security)
2015-09-29 13:59

Attackers have developed a botnet capable of 150+ Gbps DDoS attack campaigns using XOR DDoS, a Trojan malware used to hijack Linux systems, according to Akamai. What is XOR DDoS? XOR DDoS is a T...