Cloudflare announced recently that they are seeing an increase in amplification attacks using memcached servers, and that this exploit has the potential to be a big problem because memcached is ...

memcached servers are an irresistibly attractive means for firing packed cannons at any target without needing a botnet infrastructure, warns Tod Beardsley, research director at Rapid7. The warning ...

Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what’s known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different ...

We've been seeing a rise of ever bigger Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for years now. But, now a new attack method, Memcrashed, can blast your site with over a terabyte of traffic. Good ...

Solana withstood a historic 6 Tbps DDoS attack without downtime, demonstrating resilience comparable to Tier-1 internet infrastructure. Layered defenses, QUIC, stake-weighted QoS, and local fee ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The total number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks fell 13% in 2021 over 2020, but were still well above pre-pandemic levels, according to Nexusguard ...

Three out of every four distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks employed blended, multi-vector approaches in the second quarter of 2017, tapping the internet of things (IoT) and ramping up the ...

Cybercrime gangs are abusing Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems to bounce and amplify junk traffic as part of DDoS attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on Tuesday. Not all RDP ...

The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan’s status blog reported: ...