DDoS attacks are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure sectors including banking, financial services, government, and public utilities such as energy providers, experienced a ...

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Cloudflare mitigated new record-breaking DDoS attack of 3.8 Tbps

Cloudflare recently mitigated a new record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps and 2.14 billion packets per second (Pps). Cloudflare reported that starting from early ...

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CUPS vulnerabilities could be abused for DDoS attacks

While the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) vulnerabilities recently disclosed by researcher Simone “evilsocket” Margaritelli are not easily exploited for remote ...

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Unix Printing Vulnerabilities Enable Easy DDoS Attacks

All an attacker needs to exploit flaws in the Common Unix Printing System is a few seconds and less than 1 cent in computing costs.

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Cloudflare reports thwarting the largest-ever publicly disclosed DDoS attack

Content distribution network Cloudflare has reported mitigating the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack seen to date. The ...

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Decade-Old Linux Vulnerability Can Be Exploited for DDoS Attacks on CUPS

This article explores the Linux vulnerability discovered by Simone Margaritelli, which, according to cybersecurity companies Uptycs and Akamai,… This article has been ...

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Hacktivist activity drives a rise in DDoS attacks

The first half of this year has seen a 43 percent increase in the number of application-layer attacks and a 30 percent increase in volumetric attacks, especially in Europe and ...

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GorillaBot Emerged As King For DDoS Attacks With 300,000+ Commands

The newly emerged Gorilla Botnet has exhibited unprecedented activity, launching over 300,000 DDoS attacks against targets in over 100 countries between September 4 and 27.  ...

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Over 300,000! GorillaBot: The New King of DDoS Attacks

Overview In September 2024, NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System monitored a new botnet family calling itself Gorilla Botnet entering an unusually active state. Between ...

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Over 300,000! GorillaBot: The New King of DDoS Attacks

Overview In September 2024, NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System monitored a new botnet family calling itself Gorilla Botnet entering an unusually active state. Between ...

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Talos discovers denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Audio Bus; Potential remote code execution in popular open-source PLC

Talos researchers have disclosed three vulnerabilities in OpenPLC, a popular open-source programmable logic controller. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read ...

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Financial services sector remains top DDoS target, Akamai reports

Akamai Technologies' latest report reveals financial services are the prime target for Layer 3 and 4 DDoS attacks for the second year in a row, making up 34% of incidents.

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Financial services sector remains top DDoS target, Akamai reports

Akamai Technologies' latest report reveals financial services are the prime target for Layer 3 and 4 DDoS attacks for the second year in a row, making up 34% of incidents.

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How DataDome Protected a US News Website from a 12-Hour DDoS Attack

A US news website recently faced a 1.85 billion request DDoS attack. Learn how DataDome stopped the attack in its tracks, keeping the customer safe. The post How DataDome ...

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Financial services face rising DDoS threats – Akamai

Akamai’s latest report reveals financial services face escalating DDoS attacks, with politically motivated strikes and rampant brand impersonation and phishing threats

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Financial services face rising DDoS threats – Akamai

Akamai’s latest report reveals financial services face escalating DDoS attacks, with politically motivated strikes and rampant brand impersonation and phishing threats

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Ukraine, Gaza Wars Inspire DDoS Surge Against Finservs

Hacktivists love to target financial services companies, and their attacks are growing both larger and longer.

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Crypto Mining and DDoS Threats: How Hadooken Malware Targets Oracle Web Logic Servers

Threat actors were found exploiting poorly secured Oracle WebLogic servers for mining cryptocurrency, building a DDoS botnet, and other malicious activities.  The ...

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Akamai Prevents Record-Breaking DDoS Attack on Major U.S. Customer

Read about the record-breaking DDoS attack mitigated by Akamai Prolexic and learn the 7 steps we recommend to address DDoS and related cyberattack risks. This article has been ...

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Radware reports web DDoS attack activity

Radware has reported a dramatic surge in sophisticated web DDoS attacks in 2024, largely driven by hacktivists amid increasing geopolitical tensions.

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