Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The attack traffic peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a Prolexic customer in Asia-Pacific (APAC). âOn February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against […]
The number of DDoS attacks we see around the globe is on the rise, and that trend is likely to continue throughout 2023, according to Corero. We expect to see attackers deploy ever higher rate request-based or packets-per-second attacks. âDDoS attacks have historically focused around sending packets of large sizes with the aim to paralyze and disrupt […]
KmsdBot Botnet Leverages SSH to Compromise Systems and to Launch DDoS Attacks Researchers from Akamai have continued to study the cryptomining botnet KmsdBot and have looked at its attack flow. It is believed that KmsdBot is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire due to the wide range of companies and regions that were […]
Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests. Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. According to the experts, the attack marks a new record for Impervaâs application DDoS mitigation solution. The attack targeted an unnamed […]
On Monday, 12th September 2022, cybersecurity firm Akamai mitigated a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS Attack), which has been declared a record-breaking attack in terms of packets-per-second compared to the attack Akamai recorded in July. For your information, cybercriminals bombard servers with fake requests and traffic to prevent legit visitors from accessing their services […]
Youâve probably heard the old joke: âHumour in the public service? Itâs no laughing matter!â But the thing with downbeat, blanket judgements of this sort is that it only takes a single counter-example to disprove them. Something cannot universally be true if it is ever false, even for a single moment. So, wouldnât it be nice […]
One of Googleâs customers was targeted with the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, according to a report the company released this week. Attributed to Google Cloud Armor Senior Product Manager Emil Kiner and Technical Lead Satya Konduru, the report details the June 1 incident, in which a Google customer was hit with a […]
Pro-Ukraine hackers are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen Russian and Belarusian websites. Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army, are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media. The DDoS attacks also targeted three Lithuanian media websites. The attacks were monitored by cybersecurity […]
Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS). Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS), which is one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks blocked by the company. The company blocked the attack earlier this month, the experts […]
Threat actors compromised WordPress sites to deploy a script that was used to launch DDoS attacks, when they are visited, on Ukrainian websites. MalwareHunterTeam researchers discovered the malicious script on a compromised WordPress site, when the users were visiting the website the script launched a DDoS attack against ten Ukrainian sites. The JavaScript was designed […]
What is a DDoS attack? Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks arenât new cyberattack vectors; They go all the way back to the early 1970s when modern commercial and enterprise networks emerged. DDoS is a cyberattack in which the adversary seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily […]
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. The company announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2 terabytes per second (Tbps), which is the largest attack Cloudflare has seen to date. The attack was launched by a Mirai botnet variant composed of 15,000 […]
Researchers have disclosed a nasty new way for bad people to mess up the internet for the rest of us. Theyâve found a fantastically powerful reflective-amplification attack technique that could easily be used for distributed denial of service (DDoS). Youâll be pleased to know the researchers havenât wasted their time dreaming up a fancy name or a […]
CDN and cybersecurity firm Akamai warns of a worrying escalation in ransom DDoS attacks since the beginning of the year. The company recently mitigated three of the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks it has ever dealt, two of which were ransom DDoS attacks. One of these two ransom DDoS attacks targeted a gambling company in […]
A new way of sending powerful denial of service traffic emerged this week. Malefactors are now misusing servers that talk Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS). Typified by Ciscoâs Netscaler ADC product, before a patch was released in January, some D/TLS servers donât check for forged requests. That allows scrotes to misuse these high-bandwidth servers to deny internet service […]
The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018. Source: AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever | ZDNet Was the US hit by a massive ‘DDoS attack’? What is DDOS? Is America Under a Foreign Cyber Attack?! Would like to […]
