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Year: 2019
2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-3
Analysis of DDoS Attacks in 2018 3.1Â DDoS Attack Count and Peak Size 3.1.1Â Attack Count and Traffic In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of traffic, about the same level as in 2017. DDoS attacks keep expanding in...
HelpNetSecurity: The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining
HelpNetSecurity - In NSFOCUS’ 2018 DDoS Attack Landscape report, NSFOCUS analyzed the threat landscape after a landmark year of technological growth related to cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0.
OODA Loop: The correlation between DDoS attacks and cryptomining
OODA Loop - A new NSFOCUS report indicates that the declining price of cryptocurrencies in 2018 prompted threat actors to stop using botnet resources for cryptomining attacks – as these were getting less and less profitable – and increasingly use them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks instead.
Adobe Security Advisory for April Security Updates
Overview On April 9, local time, Adobe officially released April security updates which fix multiple vulnerabilities in such products as Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Dreamweaver, XD CC, InDesign, Experience Manager Forms, and Bridge CC. (more…)
Apache HTTP Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Threat Alert
1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, Apache released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211). Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or, prefork could allow a less-privileged child thread or process (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the...
