Overview of DDoS Attacks in 2018 

Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at April 05, 2019.

Report Finds Correlation Between Cryptocurrency Attacks and DDoS Attacks Over the Course of 2018 SANTA CLARA, Calif., NSFOCUS, a leader in holistic hybrid security solutions, today released its 2018 DDoS Attack Landscape report, which found that there is a direct correlation between cryptocurrency and DDoS attacks. The price of cryptocurrency dropped in 2018, leading to decreased profits from […]

Politico – THE SAUCE ON DDoS — With cryptomining benefits on the decline, cyber attackers were more inclined to employ DDoS attacks in 2018, according to a report out this morning from NSFOCUS. However, the total number of DDoS attacks fell 28 percent from 2017, the company found. Most used DDoS only, but 13 percent […]

Overview Recently, Apache Software Foundation released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) in the Apache HTTP Server. Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or prefork could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system by executing code in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts executed by […]

NSFOCUS Security Lab research has seen a dramatic decrease in DDoS attacks between 2017 and 2018.  We are in consensus with other TI vendors  as to most of the driving factors behind this large scale reduction, except one. This webinar 1 will show why NSFOCUS is breaking from the pack on one of the key […]

Overview Recently, a foreign researcher announced a 0-day vulnerability with Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (IE). Enticing a user to click a malicious link, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the same-origin policy of the two kinds of browsers to launch a universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) attack to steal the user’s sensitive information.

Top 10 countries in attack counts:

Overview Recently, a foreign researcher discovered a potential vulnerability in the UC browser which may affect hundreds of millions of users around the world. A hidden feature is found in the UC browser to download auxiliary software modules for execution by bypassing some restrictions of an application store. This feature is used to add new […]

1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, a security researcher disclosed details about a PostgreSQL privilege escalation code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-9193), which allows attackers with read access to database server-side files to execute arbitrary system commands.