5.3.2 Attack Type Distribution In 2018, the most frequent attacks seen814 were SYN flood, UDP flood, ACK flood, HTTP flood and HTTPS flood attacks, which altogether accounted for 96% of all DDoS attacks. In contrast, reflection attackers contributed to no more than 3% of attacks. Compared with 2017, the year...
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Advisory: Gitlab EE multiple high-risk vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Description On December 10, 2019 local time, GitLab officially released an important version update notice, announcing three high-risk vulnerabilities in GitLab EE (Enterprise Edition). GitLab is an open source and web-based Git-repository management project. (more…)
Advisory: Two high-risk vulnerabilities in GoAhead web server
Vulnerability Description On December 2, 2019, Cisco Talos publicly released reports of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-5096) and a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2019-5097) for the GoAhead web server. GoAhead is an open source, simple, lightweight, and powerful embedded Web Server. It is a Web server tailored for embedded...
VMware ESXi Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-5544) Threat Alert
Overview On December 5, local time, VMware officially released a security advisory that revealed a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-5544) in VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS. The vulnerability is due to a heap overwrite issue in OpenSLP used in ESXi and Horizon DaaS appliances. Malicious users with access to port...
IP Reputation Report-12152019
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 December 15, 2019. (more…)
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5.3 DDoS Attacks 5.3.1 Attack Trend In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of attack traffic, about the same volume as observed in 2017. This trend suggests that while the number of DDoS attacks is lower, the size of...
