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WordPress sites are being hacked to display fraudulent Cloudflare DDoS protection pages that lead to the delivery of malware such as NetSupport RAT and Raccoon Stealer. “A recent surge in JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites has resulted in fake DDoS prevent prompts which lead victims to download remote access trojan malware,” Sucuri’s Ben Martin said […]
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are making headlines almost every day. 2021 saw a 434% upsurge in DDoS attacks, 5.5 times higher than 2020. Q3 2021 saw a 24% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in comparison to Q3 2020. Advanced DDoS attacks that are typically targeted, known as smart attacks, rose by […]
Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today. The security breach particularly affects customers of Imperva’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula, a […]
An unrevealed streaming site hit with massive DDoS attack from 402,000 different IoT(Internet of Things) Botnet IPs, which directed a peak flow of 292,000 RPS (Requests Per Second). DDoS Attack is one of most dangerous threat for any organization and the attack main aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service that […]
A man from Utah sentenced 27 months in prison for launching massive DDoS attack against Sony and online gaming companies and its servers. Austin Thompson (23) malicious hacker resides in Utah involved denial-of-service hacking attacks against multiple victims between 2013 and 2014. Austin was Pleaded Guilty in Federal court in last year November for DoS attack and […]
Universities and colleges are among the risk group that is mostly affected by the frequent DDOS attacks according to the latest research. For example, in the UK alone, more than 200 universities were hit by 850 DDOS attacks in 2018. This raises a major concern about the security of universities and colleges worldwide. The attackers […]
The DDoS Protection Bootcamp is the First-Ever Free online Training Portal for IT security and network ops professionals to improve their DDoS protection skills. A distributed DoS attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain access and the DDoS is the one when an attacker […]