Key Findings – 2 The Bandwidth of DDoS attacks in 5G Environments Grew Steadily. Small and Medium-sized Attacks Overtook Small Attacks to Become the Mainstream Over the five-year period from 2016 to 2020, the average peak size of DDoS attacks rose to a new level since the latter half of...
Category: DDoS Mitigation
Analysis of the SBIDIOT IoT Malware
Produced by: Yuchen PAN Introduction Recently, an IoT malware sample dubbed SBIDIOT is found to engage in malicious activities, mainly distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. So far, very few incidents of this malware have been discovered by VirusTotal and cybersecurity communities. Though some IoT botnets focus on cryptocurrency mining...
A Look into the Colonial Pipeline Hack by DarkSide on CII and Countermeasures
Background On May 7, 2021, local time, Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline operator in the USA, was forced to shut down its critical fuel network serving states on the US East Coast after being hit by a ransomware attack. This ransomware attack had fuel supply halted across three regions,...
WebLogic Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On April 21, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the April 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 400 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. Seven of these vulnerabilities are severe and easy to exploit and affect WebLogic. Users are advised to take measures without delay to protect against...
Principles and Characteristics of TCP Reflection Attacks
Produced by: Siqi GUO, Qiwen LUO Increasingly Serious Reflection Attacks Reflection attacks, as nothing new, have become one of the most troublesome and common DDoS attacks and are dominant in bandwidth consumption DDoS attacks. According to NSFOCUS's latest 2020 DDoS Attack Landscape, reflection attacks made up 34% of all DDoS...
2020 DDoS Attack Landscape Report – 1
Executive Summary In 2020, the total number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks declined a little compared with 2019, probably attributable to effective governance and enhanced protection capabilities of Anti-DDoS products. Despite this, DDoS attacks intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for healthcare, government, and education sectors. January to April 2020...
