Tag: Hacktivism
In the fall of 2020, many countries began to require that travelers test negative for the new coronavirus before crossing their borders. As with anything of value, a black market soon emerged. Travelers could illicitly purchase forged negative COVID-19 test results and try to fake their way through the checkpoint. Goodness knows, we’ve already seen…
Read MoreThe Largest DDoS Attack of 2021 So Far The largest attack the SOC team encountered over the past 15 months came in February 2021 and targeted a technology company that provides information security services for gaming and gambling organizations. The onslaught peaked at 500 Gbps, or half a terabit per second. Threat actors, possibly disgruntled…
Read MoreThe sector with the largest single attack in 2021, however, was ISP/Hosting, which saw attacks peak at 1.4 Tbps. Where DDoS Attacks Come From Denial-of-service attacks are most frequently launched from compromised servers or consumer devices, such as Internet-of-Thing (IoT) products and broadband routers. In producing this report, we made use of data not only…
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As we have done for prior DDoS Attack Trends reports, we recently analyzed attack data from the F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation service to get a look at the DDoS traffic they handled for their customers in 2022. We continued our analysis by comparing 2022 data to that of 2021 and 2020. Some interesting trends…
Read MoreLooking Back How times have changed! Looking back at our 5 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023 there was not a single mention of AI. And yet, here we are wrapping up 2023 (pun very much intended) and it seems almost impossible to read a headline in which AI is not somehow involved. While we may have…
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