Last August, academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to ...
Cybercriminals appear to have finally figured out a way to launch highly effective distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using TCP amplification — something most attackers have typically ...
In a coffee-shop scenario, attackers can hijack “secure” VPN sessions of those working remotely, injecting data into their TCP streams. A vulnerability in most Linux distros has been uncovered that ...
Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...
Radware has found itself in 2019 defending against what it calls a "steady" rise in TCP DDoS reflection attacks. Since low-bandwidth TCP reflection attacks were thought in the past not to be able to ...