CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft is extending the Azure DDoS Protection family with a new product focusing on small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). The product, DDoS IP Protection for SMBs, was announced at Microsoft's Ignite conference and is now in public preview. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

At the same time, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which have also traditionally been used to extort businesses, returned in force. Ransomware has taken center stage in the cybercrime ecosystem, causing over $1 billion in losses last year around the world and earning criminals hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Content delivery network ( CDN ) service provider Edgio has added a new Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) scrubbing ability along with improved Web Application and API Interface (WAAP) to its network security offering.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Firewalls are critical, but they are not enough to protect you from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. You need a stateless DDoS solution like NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense. In fact, they are the main target of state exhaustion attacks. Learn more here. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

Larry Pesce remembers the day when the distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape changed dramatically. It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occurred in the second half of 2021, to know with certainty that such attacks are always happening. It’s not a matter of if a company will be impacted by a DDoS attack, it’s a matter of when. You only need to consider that more than 4.4

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CSO Magazine

JULY 21, 2022

At Netscout we continuously work with customers to discover the impact our offerings to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) are having on their ongoing security concerns and challenges.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There are several trends evident in the latest DDoS Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT. These include adaptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), direct-path TCP-based DDoS, proliferation of botnets, sociopolitical fallout, and collateral damage.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Yes, the first half of 2021 saw yet another record broken when it comes to global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks—but that’s not the full picture. After an astonishingly active first quarter of DDoS attack activity, things calmed down a bit for the second quarter of 2021. Unfortunately, “calmed down” is a relative term.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Cryptojacking is the most common form of attack against container- based systems running in the cloud, while geopolitical motivations—mainly related to Russia's war against Ukraine—factored into a fourfold increase in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks this year, according to a new report from cybersecurity company Sysdig.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Cyber attackers launched three worldwide distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion attack campaigns in 2021 – a startling new achievement carried out by a REvil copycat, Lazarus Bear Armada (LBA), and Fancy Lazarus. But threat actors did more than simply increase such global attacks.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Many cybersecurity companies rely on devices such as firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancers, and other edge devices to protect enterprise networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. But the reality is that such devices contain “state” information that’s used for routing and traffic management.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Cyberattacks on the Lithuanian government and private institutions conducted by the Russian cybercollective Killnet, and the group's possible collaboration with the Conti hacking gang, were shared on the Telegram messaging service ahead of a major DDoS attack Monday, according to cybersecurity company Flashpoint.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Security researchers sounded the alert about a vulnerability in an UDP-based network service called the Service Location Protocol (SLP) that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks. Tens of thousands of systems and devices have this service exposed to the internet.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

By Microsoft Security Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks represent a significant threat for enterprise businesses. They start when an individual device (bot) or network of devices (botnet) is infected with malware.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when an attacker, or attackers, attempt to make it impossible for a service to be delivered. In a DoS attack, it’s one system that is sending the malicious data or requests; a DDoS attack comes from multiple systems.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2022

And although those entertainment options sometimes provide interesting, enjoyable or ridiculous narratives, the reality is that cyberattacks can be launched with much less effort via underground DDoS-for-hire services. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2025

Jay” Abdullah , Mastercards Deputy CSO who gave a keynote address at The CSA Summit from Cloud Security Alliance at RSAC 2025. Must have skill: prompt engineering Jamison Utter, security evangelist at A10 Networks , a supplier of network performance and DDoS defense technologies, was especially candid.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This certainly holds true for our findings in the newest DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, which launches September 27, 2022.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Content delivery network ( CDN ) provider Akamai said Tuesday that its Prolexic DDoS protection service will become able to handle DDoS attacks of up to 20Tbps, thanks to a new wave of construction of so-called scrubbing centers.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

Cloud-only distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection providers have been available for some time, but as services have become more mission-critical with less tolerance for downtime – and application-layer DDoS attacks have also become more complex – cloud-only solutions are not enough.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Bad actors are constantly changing and improving the efficacy of their methods, and that of course includes distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. But last year was unique: Instead of the hackers changing, the world changed for them, and DDoS attacks peaked at an all-time high. 2020 saw unprecedented DDoS attack activity.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Changes in attack vectors and methodology allow distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attackers to circumvent defenses and countermeasures. The constant evolution of the internet and global network topology has forced adversaries and defenders to adapt. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The other night I rented a movie called “The Biggest Little Farm.” The movie depicted a couple who were new to farming but attempting to regenerate a farm that had fallen into disrepair. In the process, they continually ran into challenges regarding how to protect the crops and animals on the farm.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It seems as if each day brings more harrowing stories about DDoS attacks that have been waged against enterprises, with each attack seemingly lasting longer and costing more than the ones before. This makes them susceptible to DDoS attacks. Such devices contain state information used to route and manage traffic.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

By Microsoft Security Microsoft mitigated an average of 1,435 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per day in 2022. This trend represents a significant threat for businesses, as DDoS attacks work by targeting websites and servers to disrupt network services and exhaust an application’s resources.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

“Patriotic Russian hackers” helped hit Ukraine websites with DDoS attacks: Last week, some independent Russian hackers, so-called “patriotic Russian hackers,” or vigilantes who operate in a hacktivist-like mode, claim they helped bring down Ukrainian websites during the second round of DDoS attacks that hit the country.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Microsoft Azure launches DDoS IP protection for SMBs. Microsoft is extending the Azure DDoS Protection family with a new product focusing on small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). The product, DDoS IP Protection for SMBs, was announced at Microsoft's Ignite conference and is now in public preview. Leer más CSO Online.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As NETSCOUT’s 1H 2021 Threat Intelligence Report shows, the long tail of cybercrime innovation swept through the lockdown days of the COVID-19 pandemic to infiltrate the bulk of 2021. The vulnerabilities introduced by the global shift to online work and play are admittedly an outlier event.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A new variant of Mirai — the botnet malware used to launch massive DDoS attacks —has been targeting 13 vulnerabilities in IoT devices connected to Linux servers, according to researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 cybersecurity team. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

A botnet is a collection of internet-connected devices that an attacker has compromised to carry out DDoS attacks and other tasks as a swarm. Botnet definition. The idea is that each computer becomes a mindless robot in a larger network of identical robots, which gives the word botnet its meaning.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

My personal and professional objectives, like those of many other people, are centered around improving on how I get things done. Or, more importantly, about how to do things more efficiently. One of my favorite things to watch on the attention-sucking platform of TikTok or YouTube Shorts are life hacks.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These are the first terabit-class, direct-path distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have been identified, and they signal that changes are afoot in attacker strategy. Specifically, threat actors launched two direct-path packet-flooding attacks of more than 2.5 terabits per second using server-based botnets in 2H 2021.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

The increased success of ransomware gangs , extortion groups, and DDoS attackers is by no means accidental. More and more ransomware groups have emerged and existing ones continue to prosper in terms of repeatedly attaining success with breaching prominent organizations.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are nothing new, but they are increasing in complexity, disrupting key systems, and causing major business losses. DDoS-for-hire services now allow users to test basic DDoS attacks before purchasing. And recently, the barriers to entry for attackers have been eliminated.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The move comes after Twitter accounts claiming association with the Anonymous hacktivist collective declared "cyberwar" against the Russian government and took credit for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the websites of Russia Today, the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As ransomware and DDoS attacks have become events that every business needs to guard against, our cybersecurity solutions have evolved to protect your organization from the latest threat actors. NETSCOUT protects digital business services against disruptions in availability, performance, and security.

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