Summary Global distribution of DDoS attacks: U.S. suffered the most DDoS attacks, and Japan received the largest volume of DDoS traffic.DDoS attack trend: March and April witnessed the most frequent DDoS attacks, and May saw the peak of attack traffic.DDoS attacks and COVID-19 pandemic: DDoS attacks fluctuated noticebly with the...
Category: DDoS Mitigation
Botnet Trend Report 2019-6
Overview of DDoS Attacks in 2019 According to the observation of NSFOCUS Security Labs, DDoS botnets in 2019, though with some changes, continued with the same patterns in attack targets, families, and operating platforms overall. Among the track data of NSFOCUS Security Labs in 2019, there were more than 1.1...
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -15
Finding 1: In 2019, over 30 types of IoT vulnerability exploits were captured, most of which targeted remote command execution vulnerabilities. Though hundreds of to thousands of IoT vulnerabilities are unveiled each year, only a few can exert an extensive impact. Attackers were keen on targeting devices (routers and video...
FBI Warning: New DDoS Reflection Attacks Are Coming, Are You Ready?
According to ZDNet’s reports, FBI released a warning last week that some new network protocols were used by criminals to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. Three protocols and one Web applications were found as DDoS attack vectors, including CoAP, WS-DD, ARMS and Web-based Jenkins. (more…)
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -14
Malware Threats from Mobile Platforms Nowadays, smartphones are ubiquitous. Android, as a widely used mobile operating system, is vulnerable to an increasing large number of malware families owing to its openness and privilege issues. Such malware can even be spread via legal channels, including Google Store. (more…)
Botnet Trend Report -4
In the reconnaissance phase, a bad actor can determine which targets to attack through batch scanning. Such scanning is often focused on user names and passwords for access to and vulnerabilities in devices. Besides, an attacker may try to compromise targets by delivering malicious baits to their email addresses collected...
