Cybercriminals are now using techniques to launch distributed denial of service attacks once only available to nation-state threat actors. The last few months have seen an increase in the number of ...

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Recent research shows a record-breaking number of DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2021. Estimated at 5.4 million, this represents a rise of 11 percent year-on-year. This increased ...

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting progressively more complex, with software-defined and cloud-driven infrastructures becoming tantalizing targets for threat actors relying on ...

Microsoft has released a security advisory to mitigate the NXNSAttack vulnerability in DNS servers that could be used to amplify a single DNS request into a DDoS attack against authoritative DNS ...

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

Another DDOS amplification technique has just recently been disclosed, NXNSAttack (technical paper here) that could be used against DNS servers. We’ve covered amplification attacks before. The short ...

No it's not a summary of some new action movie or war documentary. Carpet-bombing and DNS water torture attacks are among the biggest trends in 2023 for distributed denial of service (DDoS), according ...

New research has found a measurable increase in DNS cache miss traffic levels, and a number of previously unknown DDoS events. According to Farsight Security, analysis of DNS cache miss traffic levels ...

In 2020 DDoS attacks continue to increase both in volume and in frequency. Nexusguard Research just reported a 542% increase in DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2020 when compared with the last ...