Massive DDoS Attacks at 633.7 Gbps Combining ACK, PUSH, RESET, and SYN Packets
DDoS attack evolves with changing tech and attacker motivations, with recent cases involving significant damages and legal consequences.
Recently, the DDoS defense platform of Akamai Prolexic prevented the largest DDoS attack on a major U.S....
Cisco Identity Services Engine Flaw Let Attacker Trigger DoS Condition
Cisco addressed high-impact vulnerability CVE-2023-20243 in the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), allowing attackers to stop processing Radius packets.
This vulnerability, with a base score of 8.6, was found during the resolution of a Cisco TAC...
Top 10 Best DDoS Protection Tools & Services – 2023
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to interrupt the regular traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by flooding the target or the area around it with Internet traffic.
HTTP DDoS...
Junos OS Flaw Allows a Network-based Attacker to Launch DoS Attack
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved have been found to be vulnerable to a DoS (Denial of Service) condition, which an unauthenticated, network-based attacker can exploit.
Juniper Networks has addressed this vulnerability on their...
Tor Announces Proof-of-Work Defense to Defend Against DoS Attacks
Tor (The Onion Router) has officially introduced a Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism to defend from attackers doing Denial of Service attacks. Users worldwide have widely adopted Tor for hiding their IP addresses and maintaining their...
Industry Leading StormWall DDoS Protection — Now Even Better With Improved Client Portal
DDoS attacks pack a punch. The Ponemon Institute estimates that each minute of downtime during a DDoS assault rings in at a whopping $22,000. On top of that, recovery from such an attack can...
Researchers Uncover A New Technique To Thwart DDoS Attack with 90% Accuracy
Recent research has shown a remarkable 90% accuracy rate in detecting common online threats and DDoS attacks, which is a significant improvement over previous detection methods.
As exclusively reported to Cyber Security News, the new...
18-Year-Old Charged for Hacking Into 60,000 Users’ Accounts
An 18-year-old Wisconsin teenager has been accused by federal authorities of a cyberattack that compromised 60,000 user accounts at the sports betting website DraftKings last year.
A "credential stuffing attack" was allegedly planned by Joseph...
SLP Protocol Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Powerful 2,200x DDoS Attack
The Service Location Protocol (SLP) has been found to have a new reflective Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification vulnerability.
Threat actors can exploit this vulnerability to execute extensive DDoS attacks with a staggering amplification of 2,200X.
Researchers at...
Why DDoS Attacks Use IoT Devices as Weapons?
Indusface saw a 74% increase in the number of websites that experienced DDoS attacks from Q3 to Q4 of 2022.
The frequency and scale of DDoS attacks have increased. Attackers are using more sophisticated methods...