Tag: DDOS

The security company Radware warns of a second wave of ransomware attacks by a group that was already active in August 2020. In the last week of December 2020 and the first week of January 2021, Radware customers became targets of this global DDoS campaign for the second time. These received new emails that began with the words: “You may have forgotten us, but we have not forgotten you. We've been busy working on more profitable projects, but now we're back." The second wave, only to non-payer companies that received these emails, had already in August and September...

Christmas business: Cybercrime is on the rise

16 December 2020

Online shops and stores have prepared for the onslaught of the high-volume pre-Christmas business. But this business is not only extremely lucrative for companies, the cloud security specialist from Hanover Hornetsecurity warns of a drastic increase in cyber crime: Phishing, DDoS attacks and ransomware are causing immense damage right now. In the past few years, customers were often affected by phishing campaigns from November to mid-December. Hornetsecurity expects a significant increase again this year. Phishing emails are mainly sent on behalf of the online giant Amazon. Unbeatable offers entice unsuspecting recipients to reveal your data….

DDoS attacks are decreasing again

16 November 2020

Kaspersky announces: the number of DDoS attacks in Q3 2020 will decrease by 73 percent after an increase during the corona pandemic. The number of attacks blocked by Kaspersky DDoS Protection and the commands received from the command and control servers fell significantly in the third quarter of 2020. Despite the decline, Kaspersky has not given the all-clear: Compared to the same period last year, there was still an overall increase in DDoS attacks. Many attacks during the lockdown The lockdown led to increased use of online services - and correlated with the interest of cyber criminals. There were educational and ...

More cyber attacks from COVID-19

16 October 2020

Analyzes by F5 Labs show significant increases in cyber attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic and changing attack patterns, especially for DDoS and password login attacks. According to a recent analysis by F19 Labs, the COVID-5 pandemic has led to a significant increase in DDoS and password login attacks. Based on global data from the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), the study shows a feverish and dangerous threat landscape. “F5 Labs analyzed all reported incidents from early 2020 to August. Accordingly, the attackers are trying everything to exploit pandemic-related online behavior, ”says Raymond Pompon, Director of F5 Labs. "It is…

Acronis Cyber Readiness Report

September 15, 2020

For the recently published Acronis Cyber Readiness Report, 19 companies and home office workers around the world were surveyed during the COVID-3.400 pandemic. It was found that only 12% of all employees worldwide chose full-time office work as the ideal form of work. 38% of the respondents in Germany stated that they prefer to spend half of their working hours in the office and the other half of the time to work from home. Globally, 50% of all respondents preferred this 50/33 split. Cyber Readiness Report on attacks in the home office The report also shows that ...

Blackmailers threaten DDoS attacks

September 14, 2020

Blackmailers threaten even though they have not yet had any DDoS attacks or (data) hostages: Blackmailers threaten financial companies and retailers with DDoS attacks if they do not pay. The blackmailers pose as one of the most notorious APT groups in the world in order to intimidate their victims. In the past few weeks, cyber criminals have blackmailed organizations around the world with threats of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, demanding thousands of dollars in bitcoins. The attackers targeted companies from the finance, travel and e-commerce sectors around the world. The ransom demands affect companies in the UK, the United States and ...

DDoS-as-a-Service continues to grow

September 4, 2020

According to Radware's security specialists, raids, arrests, and server seizures have no significant impact on the growth of DDoS-as-a-Service: illegal booter and stresser services. Such services, also known as DDoS-as-a-Service, are offered by many hackers who use this to market their existing botnets when they are not using them for an attack themselves. They act like normal companies according to market economy criteria. Instead of being advertised in the darknet and on social media in the past, the services are now extensively advertised primarily on common Internet search engines, and strong competition ensures ...

DDoS attacks from the USA and China

September 2, 2020

As the new Threat Intelligence Report from A10 Networks shows, most DDoS attacks originate in the US and China. The current report provides information on the countries from which the most common reflected amplification attacks with DDoS attack tools originate and where most of the DDoS botnet agents are hosted. The latest Threat Intelligence Report from A10 Networks shows that the USA and China are the leading countries of origin for Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). In addition, the results make it clear that DDoS attacks continue to increase in scope, frequency and complexity and that hackers are resorting to increasingly different strategies for their purposes. So ...

DDoS attacks increase by 200 percent

August 21, 2020