Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks

A newly active botnet, dubbed “Gorilla Botnet,” has unleashed a gargantuan wave of cyberattacks this past September, according to the NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System. ...

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Largest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps

CLoudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. (Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) News article. This ...

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New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity ...

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DDoS attacks are on the rise, and are increasingly politically-motivated

Hacktivists are causing chaos around the world with ever-improving DDoS attacks.

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New DDoS Attack Vector Discovered in CUPS, Exposing 58,000+ Vulnerable Devices Online

Akamai researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) that could allow malicious actors to initiate powerful distributed ...

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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure

Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS). The post Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT ...

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DDoS attacks can be amplified by CUPS flaw

RCE is not the only way to abuse the recently-uncovered CUPS flaw - it can also run powerful DDoS campaigns.

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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure

Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS). The post Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT ...

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New CUPS Vulnerability Can Amplify DDoS Attacks: Patch Now!

A newly discovered vulnerability in the open-source CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) printing system can be used by threat actors to launch DDoS attacks with a 600x ...

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The largest ever DDoS attack has just been blocked - here's how it was done

Cloudflare mitigated a 3.8Tbps DDoS attack against an unnamed company.

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Cloudflare Mitigates Record Breaking 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare fends off a massive 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, surpassing the previous record. Learn how… This article has been indexed from ...

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Cloudflare Mitigates Record 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare fends off a massive 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, surpassing the previous record. Learn how… This article has been indexed from ...

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Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. ...

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Recently patched CUPS flaw can be used to amplify DDoS attacks

A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) open-source printing system can be exploited by threat actors to launch distributed ...

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Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps

During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 ...

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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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