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Black Friday weekend was DDoS attack weekend
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Cyber ​​attacks on Black Friday weekend broke records and were twice as high as last year. The companies were faced with a flood of DDoS attacks that have now exceeded the terabit limit. The past Cyber ​​Weekend not only attracted bargain hunters to the Internet. The latest evaluations by the IT security provider Link11 show that cyber criminals also tried to seize the opportunity. According to evaluations by the Link11 Security Operations Center (LSOC), they covered companies with DDoS attacks in order to damage them or to extort bitcoins. However, the number of attacks this year was even higher than expected ...

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BSI warns of DDoS attacks on Black Friday & Cyber ​​Monday
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) expects unusually strong DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) on online platforms on the Black Friday (26.11.21/29.11.21/21,8) and Cyber ​​Monday (28/XNUMX/XNUMX) campaign days as well as during the Christmas business . The BSI therefore advises online retailers and organizations in the e-commerce sector in particular to prepare suitable countermeasures. The BSI has published a cyber security warning for this purpose and recommends not responding to any attempts at extortion. Comment by BSI President Schönbohm “In the past few weeks we have observed DDoS attacks with up to XNUMX million requests per second (MRPS). This corresponds to an increase of XNUMX percent over before ...

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