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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
Happy Co-workers gather around office table
/ Judy Clark

Comparably Recognizes NETSCOUT as Top Workplace

NETSCOUT is proud to be recognized as a top workplace by Comparably, an employee review platform that ranks companies on key categories impacting the employee experience...

  • Community
Heart of Giving 200 Volunteer Events
/ Karen McCloskey

200 Team Volunteer Projects

Through NETSCOUT’s Heart of Giving, our charitable giving programs, any employee who sees an opportunity to address an issue in their community can step up and organize a team to...

  • Community
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
People clapping.
/ Beth Kirsch

Comparably Recognizes NETSCOUT as Top Workplace—Again!

NETSCOUT is proud to be recognized as a top workplace by Comparably, an employee review platform that ranks more than 70,000 companies on key categories impacting the employee...

  • Community
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
A member of NETSCOUT Leadership team is giving guidance to a few participants.
/ Karen McCloskey

Sixty-Eight Students Innovate at "Tech for Good” Hackathon

On Saturday, September 23, NETSCOUT hosted its 10th civic hackathon in collaboration with Shooting Stars Foundation. Held at NETSCOUT’s office in Allen, Texas, this event was an 8...

  • Community
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