Tag: ddos

January 19, 2024

Vulnerable Docker hosts are being targeted with an odd cybercrime campaign, whose goal isn’t to steal sensitive data, deploy stage-two malware, or mount devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Instead, this campaign’s goal is to boost website traffic for […]

October 30, 2023

There had been “thousands” of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the time since the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability was disclosed, a new report from Cloudflare has claimed, adding that 89 of those exceeded 100 million requests […]

October 10, 2023

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The […]

April 3, 2023

A cybercriminal outfit is posing as well-known ransomware gangs in order to extort money from US companies. Since March, the group, known as Midnight, has impersonated other gangs in emails sent to US companies, instructing them to pay up or […]

March 7, 2023

Edge computing is fast becoming an essential part of our future technology capabilities. According to a recent report, the global edge computing market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 38.9% from 2022 to 2030, reaching […]

August 18, 2022

Google Cloud has claimed to have blocked the largest Layer 7 (HTTPS) DDoS attack to date after a Cloud Armor customer was targeted by a series of attacks that peaked at 46 million requests per second (rps). Google stated the […]

March 31, 2022

Threat actors are compromising cloud accounts in order to create distributed workloads for cryptomining — compromising misconfigured and vulnerable cloud instances for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and abusing trial accounts from DevOps service providers. A Romanian group, dubbed Outlaw, […]

March 1, 2021

As network-layer DDoS attacks continue to increase, more businesses are adopting DDoS protection services such as Cloudflare’s Magic Transit. Magic Transit protects organizations’ entire networks from DDoS attacks by placing Cloudflare’s network in front of theirs and this functionality can […]

November 18, 2020

Google on Wednesday announced a bevy of updates across its Network Security portfolio for Google Cloud customers. New features include enhancements to existing DDoS protections, as well as new capabilities that aim to help customers protect data and applications in […]

January 14, 2019

Radware has announced the acquisition of ShieldSquare in a bid to improve its cloud security portfolio and enhanced anti-bot and fraudulent traffic protections. Last week, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protections provider Radware said it has entered into an agreement to purchase […]

January 31, 2018

Cloud computing isn’t going anywhere, but it is undergoing significant change. Challenges such as GDPR data-compliance requirements, massive DDoS attacks and containers are set to reshape the way businesses use the cloud. The cloud has always been evolving. A decade […]

May 9, 2017

Cloud migration is a hot topic and has been for about five years now. Everyone is familiar with the broad adoption of cloud services by the business of all shapes and sizes. The types of cloud service used to support […]