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7 Layers of DDoS Attacks and How To Prevent Them

DDoS attacks can derail profits; safeguard your business against them with these prevention methods across different layers.

December 28, 2023 Mia Turlington Leave a Comment

As businesses grow to gain traction and revenue from the Internet, the increasing reliance is an easy target for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Like any new venture, risks are an undeniable part that comes with it. For eCommerce businesses, the main risk is DDoS attacks. Known as a dangerous and malicious attack to […]

Microsoft Releases Azure DDoS Protection for Sentinel

Azure DDos Protection Solution for Microsoft Sentinel helps customers identify and block attack vectors in other Azure security tools.

February 14, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is releasing a new Azure DDos Protection Solution for Microsoft Sentinel that is designed to help customers identify bad actors from Azure’s DDoS security signals and block new attack vectors in other network security products, such as Azure Firewall. The Redmond, Wash. IT giant says each Azure network security service is fully integrated with […]

NETSCOUT Launches Arbor Insight for Enhanced DDoS Prevention

NETSCOUT calls Arbor Insight a new technology designed to enhance and extend threat detection, service delivery and network visibility.

August 15, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Advanced network detection and response solution provider NETSCOUT is launching Arbor Insight, a new technology designed to enhance and extend threat detection, service delivery and network operator visibility to address a rapidly changing security landscape. The company says Arbor Insight  can be combined with Arbor Sightline, its anomaly-detection and network traffic analysis solution, to extend […]

Watch Out For This Linux DDoS Trojan, Microsoft Says

Microsoft says it has observed a 254% increase in activity from XorDdos, an eight-year-old Linux trojan targeting Linux-based systems.

May 23, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says it has observed a 254% increase in activity over the last six months from an eight-year-old Linux trojan targeting Linux-based operating systems on cloud infrastructures and IoT devices. The malware, called XorDdos, is named after its attack method, denial of service on Linux endpoints and servers, in addition to XOR-based encryption for its […]

Approov Runtime Secrets Protection Shields Mobile App Secrets, Prevents Theft of API Keys and Credentials, Blocks Mobile App DDoS Attacks

May 19, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

New Osterman Research Findings Reveals Massive, Highly Exploitable Mobile API Attack Surface. Approov New Release Dynamically Manages and Protects all API Credentials for Mobile Apps, Keeping them Secure, Shielding Apps from Attack. SAN JOSE, Calif. & EDINBURGH, Scotland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Approov—Approov, creators of advanced mobile app and API shielding solutions, today introduced Approov Runtime Secrets Protection, enabling […]

Bad Actors Innovate, Extort and Launch 9.7M DDoS Attacks in 2021 According to the Latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report

March 22, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Ransomware Gangs, DDoS-for-Hire Services, and Server-Class Botnet Armies Make Attacks Easier to Launch with Greater Sophistication WESTFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT) today announced findings from its bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report. During the second half of 2021, cybercriminals launched approximately 4.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, bringing the total number of DDoS […]

Microsoft Says It Mitigated Largest Ever DDoS Attack

Company says DDoS attacks skyrocketed in second half of 2021, as gaming, VoIP and ISPs were targeted heavily.

January 28, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says it recently mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second, which would make it the largest such attack in history. In an Azure blog, Microsoft says the November 2021 attack targeted an Azure customer in Asia that originated from about 10,000 sources from multiple countries, […]

DDoS Attacks Combined With Extortion Attempts Exploded in Q4

According to new data from Cloudflare, the amount of DDoS attacks being layered with a ransom demand increased by 175% in the fourth quarter.

January 12, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

According to new data from web infrastructure and security firm Cloudflare, the amount of DDoS attacks being layered with a ransom demand are increasing significantly. The company’s DDoS Attack Trends report for the fourth quarter of 2021 revealed a ransom DDoS attack increase of 29% for the year and a whopping 175% for the quarter. […]

Microsoft Azure DDoS Attacks Up By 140%

Microsoft observed a 140% increase in DDoS attacks targeting Azure customers in Europe the last week of August.

October 15, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Every organization with internet-exposed workloads is vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, especially those who are adopting cloud services in the wake of the pandemic. Bad actors will look for ways to take applications offline. The last week of August, Microsoft observed 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps) of DDoS attacks targeting Azure customers in Europe. […]

My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 143: DDoS Attacks and Triple Extortion

Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead at NETSCOUT, joins the podcast to talk about the rise of DDoS attacks and triple extortion.

October 8, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead at NETSCOUT, joins the podcast to talk about the rise of DDoS attacks and triple extortion.