Reflective and Short-burst DDoS Attacks Harnessed to Knock Down the Targets in Ukraine
fevereiro 25, 2022
Background Since 2022, the relationship between Russia and Ukraine has become increasingly tense. The two sides are at loggerheads and have deployed a large number of military personnel and equipment in the border areas of the two countries. However, since entering the 21st century, war is not limited to armed actions, but happens in other […]
DDoS Attacks Have Entered Terabit Era
janeiro 29, 2022
MILPITAS, Calif. – January 28, 2022 – NSFOCUS, a leader in holistic hybrid security solutions, today released the 2021 Global DDoS Attack Landscape, a joint report by working with Tencent, which found that DDoS attacks have entered the terabit era with the largest DDoS traffic peaked at 2.4 Tbps (or 3.25 Tbps according the latest news […]
Amplification DDoS Attacks Come Again
fevereiro 26, 2021
Just in February, another two amplification DDoS attacks caught our attention. They are respectively abusing Plex Media Servers and Powerhouse VPN servers to amplify junk traffic to victims. Abuse Plex Media Server for Amplification Attacks On 3rd February, according to ZDNet, DDoS-for-hire services have found a way to abuse Plex Media servers to bounce junk […]
Design of Protection Against HTTPS-Targeted DDoS Attacks
julho 14, 2020
As more and more Internet business is switched to the encrypted HTTPS from the plaintext HTTP, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against HTTPS are also on the rise, including attacks targeting the SSL/TLS handshake and HTTPS services. Protecting against HTTPS-targeted DDoS attacks has always been a hard nut to crack within the industry. This document describes the working principle and harm of this kind of attacks as well as the protection design and practices.
(mais…)DDoS Attack Landscape 7
maio 13, 2020
Attack Gang Size
Gang Size
Figure 3-27 shows the distribution of our identified IP gangs by size. Two gangs consist of over 10,000 members and the largest gang has 88,000 members.
How NSFOCUS ADS KO’s DDoS Attacks
novembro 18, 2019
What Is DDoS? Look at the following example: Assume that you run a shop that is doing well. At this time, your neighbor, Mr. Wang (or whatever his name is), whose business is slack, looks at you as an eyesore. Therefore, he hires a group of hooligans. Then you find that your shop is crowded […]
Have Rich Game Customers Who Suffered DDoS Attacks Turned to You?
julho 15, 2019
According to NSFOCUS 2018 DDoS Attack Trend Report, the gaming sector has become the second biggest victim of DDoS attacks, receiving 27.6% of the total number of attacks. (mais…)
DDoS Attacks and Mitigation
maio 29, 2019
Nowadays, the advancement of information technology has brought tremendous convenience to people. Whether it is social networking or ecommerce, the Internet has become an integral and essential part of our lives. As Internet brought new opportunities, it also created new threats. DDoS is one of the most destructive form of threats. In the past decade, DDoS has been weaponized by various organizations and individuals used for ransomware, revenge, even cyber warfare. (mais…)
Anatomy of an attack: network bandwidth exhaustion
janeiro 5, 2016
Track: Technical
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
DDoS attacks come in three basic flavors: network-layer, application-layer and a hybrid of the two. This is a somewhat simplistic view but when you look at the strategy for taking someone down via DDoS, the two primary vehicles are either exhaustion of available network bandwidth or the overwhelming of back-end processing power (which can be directed either at the server system itself or the applications residing on them). The most efficient approach to take down a target will depend on the target itself. This is why it is important for every company to consider all of the assets that could become targets when designing anti-DDoS protection. (mais…)
DDoS attacks – more than just disruption?
dezembro 21, 2015
Track: General Security
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for decades and have been increasing in popularity due to the relative ease in carrying one out. Traditionally, the purpose of these attacks has been to make a site or service unavailable to its intended users for some duration via either flood-type attacks or application-layer attacks (which are smaller, but just as effective) that overwhelm the target’s network or systems. (mais…)
