Black Friday weekend was DDoS attack weekend
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 ...