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The Long Tail of Adversary Innovation
/ Carol Hildebrand

The Long Tail of Adversary Innovation

Latest Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT details extensive global impact of cyberattacks on private and public sector organizations.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Abusable Internet Censorship Systems
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

HTTP Reflection/Amplification via Abusable Internet Censorship Systems

Learn more about this distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vector which abuses middlebox systems for HTTP reflection/amplification.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
red wave
/ Carol Hildebrand

Our New DDoS Normal Isn’t All That Normal

Attack frequency has dropped, but we are nowhere near the numbers considered normal prior to COVID-19: Threat actors launched approximately 5.4 million DDoS attacks in the first...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
attacker
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

DHCPDiscover Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

DHCPDiscover, a UDP-based JSON protocol used to manage DVRs, can be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks when an internet-exposed DVR lacks any form of...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
cyber extortion
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

Fancy Lazarus DDoS Extortion Campaign

ASERT Threat Summary Date/Time: 17June2021 1300UTC Severity: Warning Distribution: TLP: WHITE Categories: Availability Contributors: Jon Belanger, Richard Hummel. Executive Summary...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Reflection/Amplification
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Reflection/Amplification

Adversaries weaponize STUN servers by incorporating the protocol into DDoS-for-Hire services. Approximately 75k abusable STUN servers give DDoS attackers ample opportunity to...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
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  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Quarterly DDoS Update
/ Carol Hildebrand

The Beat Goes On

The beat goes on: Threat actors launched approximately 2.9 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2021, a 31% increase from the same time in 2020.

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
connected globe
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

TsuNAME Zone Cyclic Dependency-Induced Recursive DNS Query Cascade

In mid-May 2021, security researchers at SIDN Labs, InternetNZ, and USC/ISI released a research paper describing a sabotage-based DDoS attack methodology dubbed ‘TsuNAME’ that...

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

Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) is a variant of the TLS encryption protocol implemented atop User Datagram Protocol (UDP), it is utilized to secure datagram-based...

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

Plex Media SSDP (PMSSDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

Amplified PMSSDP DDoS attack traffic consists of SSDP HTTP/U responses sourced from ports UDP port 32414 and/or UDP port 32410 on abusable Plex Media Server instances and directed...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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DDoS Campaign
/ Carol Hildebrand

Crossing the 10 Million Mark: DDoS Attacks in 2020

For the first time, we observed DDoS attacks rise above 10 million annually in 2020, nearly 1.6 million more attacks than seen in 2019.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • ASERT
ddos banner
/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations - January 2021

Recently observed DDoS attacks leverage abusable Microsoft RDP service to launch UDP Reflection/Amplification attacks with an 85.9:1 amplification factor.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services