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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
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
Anonymous Sudan
/ Christopher Conrad, Marcin Nawrocki

Anonymous Sudan

Anonymous Sudan is a highly prolific threat actor conducting distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) to support their pro-Russian, anti-Western agenda. Although the attacks...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
  • Political DDoS
DNS NXDOMAIN
/ Roland Dobbins, Richard Hummel

The Power of Names

Typically, application-layer protocols such as HTTP/s, QUIC, SIP, and others receive the lion’s share of attention in most discussions of internet traffic. But it’s the Domain Name...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
http attack
/ Roland Dobbins

HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' Application-Layer DDoS Attacks Targeting Shared Cloud Computing, SaaS, and CDN Infrastructure Providers

In a joint disclosure by several well-known cloud computing, SaaS, and CDN operators, a new HTTP/2 application-layer DDoS attack vector (CVE-2023-44487) has been described which...

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

Bulletproof Hosting (BPH) Taxonomy

The phrase Bulletproof hosting suggests technical sophistication, infrastructure resiliency, and a platform with elaborate redundancy. However, for the internet security community...

  • threat analysis
apac
/ Richard Hummel

100% Increase in DDoS Attacks Against India

Summary NETSCOUT and ASERT have observed massive increases in DDoS attacks against Indian targets. This near doubling of DDoS attacks since the beginning of 2023 has been fueled by...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
warning
/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason, John Kristoff

Service Location Protocol (SLP) Reflection/Amplification Attack Mitigation Recommendations

With the computing power and internet transit capacity available to a substantial proportion of abusable SLP reflectors/amplifiers, attackers can potentially launch extremely high...

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

DDoS Attacks Targeting NATO Members Increasing

As the effects of COVID-19 and inflated numbers of DDoS attacks have settled into some semblance of normalcy, it has been all out DDoS war for Finland, Hungary, and Turkey.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Political DDoS
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks