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/ 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
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/ 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
  • DDoS Tools and Services
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/ 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
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/ 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
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/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

Lazarus Bear Armada DDoS Extortion Campaign — December 2020

DDoS Extortion Update: As previously reported, a relatively prolific threat actor initiated a global campaign of DDoS extortion attacks in mid-August 2020, largely directed towards...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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/ Suweera De Souza

Dropping the Anchor

Trickbot has long been one of the key banking malware families in the wild. Despite recent disruption events, the operators continue to drive forward with the malware and have...

  • Malware
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/ Roland Dobbins , Steinthor Bjarnason

High-Profile DDoS Extortion Attacks — September 2020

Starting in mid-August 2020, a relatively prolific threat actor initiated a global campaign of DDoS extortion attacks largely directed towards regional financial and travel...

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

Lucifer’s Spawn

ASERT researchers have uncovered new information about Lucifer, which is a cryptojacking and distributed denial of service (DDoS) bot, originally found to exploit and run on...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
  • Botnets
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/ Hardik Modi , Roland Dobbins

Last Week in DDoS...

By all indications, the events of last week brought have brought the importance of DDoS defense into focus for many individuals and organizations. DDoS attacks aren’t something to...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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UK in Focus

Summary Based on a case study in our most recent blog, the observed global DDoS attack count (frequency), bandwidth (BPS), and throughput (PPS) all saw significant increases since...

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/ Roland Dobbins

Measuring the Cruellest Month

Summary One of the more esoteric aspects of working in the DDoS defense space is the analysis of data. We look at data about attack bandwidth (bps) and throughput (pps)...

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

Evolution of a New DDoS Technique

Summary In October of 2019, high-impact TCP reflection/amplification DDoS attacks hit organizations in Scandinavia and Southern Europe. These attacks leveraged servers belonging to...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks