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5 DDoS solutions in performance comparison  
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The cyber security provider Link11 was compared against leading international providers of DDoS solutions and emerged as the winner. The Frost & Sullivan study underlines the importance of precision and speed in defense. With comparison: Imperva, Cloudflight, Akamai and Neustar. Link11, the leading European IT security provider in the field of web server and infrastructure protection, is the only one of the leading global providers tested to offer comprehensive protection against DDoS attacks. When blocking an attack, Link11 is more than six times faster than average. This is the central result of a current study by the IT analyst firm...

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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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Link11 DDoS report mid-year: 33% more attacks
Link11 DDoS report mid-year: 33% more attacks

The new DDoS report from Link11 in the middle of the year shows: In addition to the increase in the number of attacks by a third compared to the same period in the previous year, the number of high-volume attacks has also increased. Link11, the leading European IT security provider in the field of cyber resilience, published the annual Link11 DDoS report in the middle of the year. The report shows that DDoS criminals were again very active in the first half of the year. They launched a record number of attacks. The Link11 Security Operations Center (LSOC) recorded a third (33%) more attacks than in the same period of the previous year in the DDoS record year 2020. The attacks were already at a high level in 2020 ...

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Wave of DDoS extortion by Fancy Lazarus
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Another wave of DDoS extortion by Fancy Lazarus. Warning of acute ransomware DDoS attacks against companies across Europe and North America on behalf of Fancy Lazarus. The Link11 Security Operations Center (LSOC) has recently observed a sharp increase in Ransomware Distributed Denial of Service (RDDoS or RDoS) attacks. With the sender Fancy Lazarus, companies from various economic sectors receive blackmail emails in which 2 Bitcoins (currently approx. 66.000 euros) are demanded: “It's a small price for what will happen when your whole network goes down. Is it worth it? You decide! ", Argue the blackmailers in ...

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