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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
Cyber Extortion
/ 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
Windows & Linux
/ 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
DDoS
/ 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
United Kingdom

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
Carpet Bomber
/ 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
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/ Roland Dobbins , Hardik Modi

Availability in the Time of COVID-19

Overview The self-quarantine and social distancing guidance provided by governments around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a rapid and wholesale switch...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report
/ ASERT Team

NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report—Powered by ATLAS

8.4 MILLION, that is the number of DDoS attacks NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence saw last year alone: more than 23,000 attacks per day, 16 every minute.

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Advanced Persistent Threats
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/ ASERT Team

DDoS Attack Vectors Live or Die

Executive Summary Dozens of known attack vectors ranging from obscure or little-used protocols (Citrix-ICA) to very common and vastly used protocols (DNS and NTP) give DDoS...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • ASERT
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/ ASERT Team

Nation State APT & The Business World

A recent article, which NETSCOUT had the opportunity to participate in, highlights the importance the corporate world holds for Nation State APT adversaries. As the article duly...

Trojan Horse
/ Suweera De Souza

Emotet - What's Changed?

Executive Summary Emotet, a banking trojan turned downloader, continues to make waves in the downloader scene despite recent hibernations. Emotet is a modular malware, first...

  • Malware