In 2019, ransomware was still a major type of threats that haunted people around the world. As an infamous botnet family, GandCrab generated more than USD 2 billion in ransom payments, simulating the rapid increase of other ransomware. (more…)
Category: DDoS Mitigation
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -17
Threats Against WS-Discovery WSD is a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local area network (LAN). However, due to device vendors' design flaw in the implementation, when a normal IP address sends a service discovery packet, devices will also respond to the request. If exposed on the Internet,...
2019 Cybersecurity Insights -16
In this section, we analyzed threats against three major protocols. Threats Against Telnet According to data from NSFOCUS's threat hunting system, Telnet (available on port 23), targeted by a total of 120,000 attack sources, was the IoT protocol most favored by attackers1 . Figure 7-3 shows the activity trend of...
2020 Mid-Year DDoS Attack Landscape Report-1
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...
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...
