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Hackers organize themselves more and more professionally
Hackers organize themselves more and more professionally

In the course of 2021, hackers have organized their underground ecosystems better and better, so that in the new year 2022 even more professional attack patterns must be expected. According to the security experts at Radware, ransomware groups in particular are increasingly looking for allies among experienced contract hackers. Attacks on MSPs and 5G network operators are also expected. For example, ransomware groups Avaddon, SunCrypt, Ragnar Locker, and Hello Kitty are known to use DDoS attacks to further pressure their victims. "Such groups regularly publish messages hiring experts in areas such as backup technology - not to...

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DDoS Attack Report Q2 2021 from Radware
DDoS Attack Report Q2 2021 from Radware

The volume of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) increased by 40 percent worldwide in the second quarter compared to the same period last year. This is one of the key findings of Radware's quarterly DDoS Attack Report. The report provides an overview of DDoS attack trends by industry as well as by application and attack type. Geographically, the attacks were mainly spread across America and the EMEA region, which accounted for 80 percent of the volume. In terms of industries, the focus was primarily on technology companies with an average of almost 3.000 attacks, followed by healthcare with around 2.000 attacks per ...

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Study: Pandemic Changes
Office planning study

A new Radware study shows: Pandemic-related changes in companies in the areas of people, processes and applications are permanent. The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect that the changes they have made to people, processes and applications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will survive the pandemic. This is the main result of the study "C-Suite Perspectives: Accelerated Cloud Migration but Lagging Security" that the security specialist Radware conducted with top managers worldwide. In the survey, 44% of the executives surveyed reported negative impacts of the crisis on budgets,…

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Hidden SSL attacks
Encryption SSL https

SSL attacks: After the mass introduction of technologies, security gaps are becoming known that even attackers can exploit perfectly. The encryption technology SSL is no exception to this rule and has shown a large number of published vulnerabilities that force users to switch to new, more secure versions and ultimately to a replacement protocol such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). However, exploiting newly identified vulnerabilities is not the only way SSL is used as a weapon in the hands of malicious attackers. According to Radware, SSL attacks are being used more and more frequently to detect the ...

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DDoS-as-a-Service continues to grow
DDos attack, Radware, DDos-as-a-Service

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 ...

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