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Security Stack Efficiency Depends on Focused Feature Usage
/ Michael Wetherbee

Security Stack Efficiency Depends on Focused Feature Usage

Many networks in today’s interconnected world suffer from overexposure to excessive nuisance and sometimes malicious traffic, even if they are not the target of that traffic. This...

  • DDoS
  • Service Provider
global ddos
/ Max Resing

The Unbearable Asymmetry of DDoS

Because adversaries leverage compromised and abusable online resources belonging to legitimate organizations and individuals to launch DDoS attacks, the tangible cost to attackers...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
traffic
/ John Kristoff, Kinjal Patel, Roman Lara

Nuisance Network Traffic

While there are many obvious threats like hacktivists, nation-state adversaries and ransomware operators, there also lies a constant ever-growing undercurrent that we call nuisance...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
network-visibility-and-ddos-attack-analysis-are-essential
/ Michael Wetherbee

Network Visibility and DDoS Attack Analysis Are Essential in Identifying and Mitigating Adversarial Attacks

All methods of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack analysis—whether proactive, or in preparation for a DDoS attack; reactive, or during a DDoS attack; or even in post...

  • DDoS
  • Security
  • Service Provider
carpet-bombing graphic
/ Kinjal Patel, Richard Hummel

Carpet-Bombing

Carpet-bombing (Spread Spectrum, Subnet DDoS) attacks take place when an adversary targets a range of addresses or subnets simultaneously to saturate networks with garbage traffic...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
digital globe
/ Richard Hummel

DDoS Attacks Against Poland Skyrocket In Wake of New Prime Minister’s Election

Since late December, Poland has been the target of several groups as new Prime Minister Tusk was sworn in. The most notable group targeting Poland is NoName057. They have targeted...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
  • Political DDoS
NoName057 Hacker in a Hoody
/ Marcin Nawrocki, Christopher Conrad, Clark Arenberg

NoName057(16)

NoName057(16) relies heavily on HTTPS application-layer DDoS attacks, with many attacks repeatedly sourced from the same attack harness, networks, and targeting similar countries...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
  • Political DDoS
  • Hacktivism
bot hand clicking laptop
/ Christopher Conrad

Unprecedented Growth in Malicious Botnets Observed

NETSCOUT observed an unprecedented rise in compromised devices performing reconnaissance scans, signaling a dangerous new wave of large-scale cyberattacks leveraging weaponized...

  • Internet traffic and trends
Arbor DDoS Protection Solution ROI
/ Tom Bienkowski

Confirmed: NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection Solution Has a 223% ROI and Reduces MTTR by 85%

For more than 20 years, most of the world’s internet service providers, cloud providers, large enterprises, and governments have relied on the industry-leading technology in...

  • DDoS
  • Service Provider
Black background circuit board with some circuits lite up
/ Brad Christian

Shifts in DDoS Techniques & Infrastructure Necessitate Automated DDoS Protection

NETSCOUT Security Solutions Director Gary Sockrider recently joined NETSCOUT AVP of Global Services Operations Steve Sviontek on our “ NO LATENCY” podcast to discuss the latest in...

  • DDoS
ddos-attacks-are-increase-and-they-are-harder-detect-blog-header
/ Andrew Green

DDoS Attacks Are on the Increase—and They Are Harder to Detect

Per NETSCOUT’s latest DDoS Threat Intelligence Report for 1H 2023, a staggering total of ~7.9 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were observed during the first...

  • DDoS
Blue Shield protesting data files
/ Andrew Green

DNS and DDoS: A Match Made in Hell

The Domain Name System, or DNS, which serves as the internet’s address book, maps human-friendly names into IP addresses so that devices, applications, and services know how to...

  • DDoS