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DDoS attacks are getting more violent - up to 1,4 TB per second
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An F5 study shows: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly violent and complex. The largest attack used 1,4 TB/s. Combined attacks are also increasing. While the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has decreased slightly in 2021, they are becoming more violent and complex. Last year, for example, the record for the largest attack of all time was broken several times. That shows a new analysis by F5. Q4: average attack size over 21 GBit/s According to this, the total volume of DDoS attacks fell by 3 percent compared to the previous year. But in the fourth quarter of 2021, the average...

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Most frequent attacks: Denial of service and password login
F5 news

Most common attacks: Denial of Service (DoS) and password login. According to the new F5 study, financial services and many European companies are particularly hard hit. Denial-of-service (DoS) and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing attacks are on the rise. This is shown by a new study by F5 Labs1. The analysis is based on incidents over the past three years that have been reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). As a result, attacks on APIs (Application Programming Interface) are also increasing. DoS attacks are ubiquitous According to F5 Labs, almost one in three (32%) incidents reported annually was a DoS attack. The percentage increases slightly ...

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DDos: Hackers bring websites to their knees 
DDos: Hackers bring websites to their knees

When hackers bring websites to their knees: best practices against DDos attacks. Cyber ​​criminals use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to target companies and institutions by causing server or web services to fail. For example, attackers bombard the IP address of a website with so much data traffic that the website and every web server connected to it is overwhelmed with answering the queries. This makes the website inaccessible for users. DDoS hacker attack: simple but effective For attackers, DDoS is a simple, effective and powerful technology that is fueled by insecure devices, especially the steadily growing Internet of Things (IoT)….

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