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Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) – key points for early adopters

March 17, 2020

Last year Gartner introduced the term Secure Access Service Edge or SASE in their technology hype cycle and almost immediately it grabbed enormous attention from the vendors and enterprise consumers. Existing and new technology players already started highlighting the benefits of SASE and marketing their offering to attract customers. But what is this SASE? Why…

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DDoS attack sidelines AWS DNS web service for hours

Bradley Barth

October 25, 2019

Amazon Web Services’ Router 53 domain name system (DNS) service was waylaid by a prolonged distributed denial of service attack earlier this week, affecting a number of online sites and services that rely on AWS. According to multiple reports, a flood of fake traffic disrupted legitimate attempts to resolve DNS requests to connect to Amazon…

Malware

‘Thingbots’ become a ‘thing’ expected to underpin a future darknet

Staff Report

August 18, 2017

Botnets built exclusively from IoT devices have very much become a 'thing - thingbots - and they are now becoming a primary infrastructure for a future darknet according to a report from cybersecurity firm F5 Networks.

Malware

China-based DDoS as a service industry growing

Doug Olenick

August 16, 2017

The number of websites based in China offering Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) as a service malware has recently jumped along with associated social media groups that help wannabe cyberattackers back end support and tips. Talos researcher Dave Liebenberg noted in a blog that many of the DDoS services available are very similar to each…

Cybercrime

DDoS attacks shorter and more frequent: 80% now take less than an hour

Danielle Correa

May 23, 2017

During Q1 2017, a reduction in average DDoS attack duration was witnessed, thanks to the prevalence of botnet-for-hire services that commonly used short, low-volume bursts.

Email Security

CREST/IISP Con: We have tools to fix it so why’s the internet still broken?

Tom Reeve

April 20, 2017

Malicious hackers are taking advantage of broken internet infrastructure that could be fixed, said NCSC technical director Ian Levy in his keynote speech yesterday at CRESTCon & IISP Congress 2017.

Network Security

20K Overwatch hackers banned in S. Korea

Robert Abel

February 3, 2017

Overwatch players can rest easier knowing that they can get a fair shake in their online battles after a thousands of hackers have been banned from the game.

Ransomware

Playing with FireCrypt: Ransomware encrypts files and conducts minor DDoS attack

Bradley Barth

January 5, 2017

While it holds your files hostage, the newly discovered ransomware FireCrypt also directs your computer to perform a poor man’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by continuously connecting to a specifically targeted URL and repeatedly downloading junk content into a temporary folder. The presently targeted URL, which is hardcoded into FireCrypt’s source code, belongs to the…

Cybercrime

Global authorities arrest 34 in DDoS bust; suspects mostly teenagers

Bradley Barth

December 12, 2016

International authorities last week arrested 34 individuals - mostly adults under 20 years old - who allegedly were using distributed denial of service (DDoS) tools to flood targets with malicious traffic, Europol announced on Monday.

Cybercrime

I wanna be your Sledgehammer: DDoS program recruits attackers by making it a game

Bradley Barth

December 9, 2016

Like a malevolent customer loyalty program, a Turkish cybercriminal operation is recruiting volunteers to participate in distributed denial of service campaigns by offering them rewards in exchange for their network bandwidth.

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Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) – key points for early adopters

DDoS attack sidelines AWS DNS web service for hours

‘Thingbots’ become a ‘thing’ expected to underpin a future darknet

China-based DDoS as a service industry growing

DDoS attacks shorter and more frequent: 80% now take less than an hour

CREST/IISP Con: We have tools to fix it so why’s the internet still broken?

20K Overwatch hackers banned in S. Korea

Playing with FireCrypt: Ransomware encrypts files and conducts minor DDoS attack

Global authorities arrest 34 in DDoS bust; suspects mostly teenagers

I wanna be your Sledgehammer: DDoS program recruits attackers by making it a game

Hacker claims army of 3.2M home routers seized via malicious firmware update