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/ Tom Bienkowski

Two Simple Ways to Thwart DDoS Attacks

A DDoS attack is coming your way. Learn how to thwart these attacks by blocking spoofed IP addresses and controlling access to services.

  • Threat Intelligence
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Enhancing Government SecOps-NetOps Collaboration with NETSCOUT Smart Data

Making government intelligence smarter with NETSCOUT: A case study

  • Security
  • Threat Intelligence
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Geopolitical Unrest Creates Breeding Ground for Cyberattacks

Regional attack trends show threat actors continuing to make use of geopolitical events to launch DDoS attacks.

  • Threat Intelligence
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/ ASERT Team

DDoS Threat Landscape - Russia

Since mid-February of 2022, the NETSCOUT Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) has been monitoring the situation in Russia and Ukraine. We recently published an...
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Bad Actors Innovate, Extort, and Launch 9.7 Million DDoS Attacks

NETSCOUT’s latest biannual Threat Intelligence Report shows bad actors launched 9.7 million DDoS attacks in 2021.

  • Threat Intelligence
  • DDoS
  • Security
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/ ASERT Team

DDoS Threat Landscape - Ukraine

The ongoing DDoS attack campaign against Ukraine increased significantly. We anticipate that DDoS activity targeting Ukraine will continue over the duration of the conflict, and...
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/ ASERT Team

TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector

A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ ASERT Team

The Anatomy of the DDoS Attack Campaign Targeting Organizations in Ukraine

Overview Beginning on 13 February 2022, multiple governmental, military, and financial organizations within Ukraine reported that their public-facing Web sites, applications, and...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ Richard Hummel

What Happened in the Second Half of 2021?

Executive Summary The second half of 2021 finally saw much of the world returning to normal, at least until the recent Omicron variant sent us packing back home. The premature...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

Mēris & Dvinis Botnets

Threat adversaries leverage exploitable Mikrotik routers with two different botnets, Mēris and Dvinis, to launch high request-per-second attacks against targets.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ Christopher Conrad

A Tale of Two Botnets

NETSCOUT's ASERT Team tracks Mēris and Dvinis DDoS Botnets. The blog covers the number of botted nodes observed, how they are propagating, and where they are distributed...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Botnets
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/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

High-Profile DDoS Extortion Attacks Against SIP/RTP VoIP Providers

Beginning in September 2021, aggressive threat actors have targeted multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communication providers with a campaign of high-impact DDoS extortion attack

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks