Second Largest Gang by the Number of Attack Sources The second largest gang in terms of the number of attack sources generated the largest traffic. This gang had 23,000 recidivists and favored volumetric SYN flood attacks. According to historical attack records, 99.54% of recidivists had resorted to this kind of...
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IP Reputation Report-07052020
1.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 July 5, 2020. (more…)
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -9
In 2019, 7% of recidivists1 were responsible for 78% of DDoS attacks. Obviously, recidivists are too menacing to overlook. Several groups of DDoS recidivists often work together to initiate attacks. Such groups are collectively referred to as an "IP gang". In 2019, a total of 60 DDoS gangs were detected,...
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -8
In 2019, most frequently seen attacks were UDP floods, SYN floods, and ACK floods, which together accounted for 82% of all DDoS attacks. By contrast, reflection attacks took up only 10%. Compared with 2018, reflection attacks rose slightly in number, but remained small in proportion. (more…)
Apache Dubbo Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1948) Patch Bypass Threat Alert
Overview On June 23, NSFOCUS reported that Apache Dubbo contained a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-1948) resulting from deserialization. Apache Dubbo is a high-performance Java RPC framework. The vulnerability exists in Hessian, a default deserialization tool used by Apache Dubbo. An attacker may exploit it by sending malicious RPC requests...
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -7
Key Findings: Maturity: The technical maturity of attackers keeps growing, opening more possibilities than DDoS attacks for attackers to garner profits. Combination: Of all DDoS attacks in 2019, 12.5% employed multiple vectors. This percentage was even higher among super-sized attacks (> 300 Gbps) to reach more than one-third. These factors...
