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China Overtakes US as Top Source of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

05

Jun

2015

More Distributed Denial of Service (#ddos) #attacks originated in China than in any other country, followed by Germany and the United States, according to the Q1 2015 State of the Internet – #security Report by cloud services provider Akamai. China is responsible for 23.45% of the world’s DDoS attacks, malicious attempts to make servers unavailable […]

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DDoS attacks double, old web application attack vectors still active

20

May

2015

Akamai #technologies analyzed thousands of #ddos attacks as well as nearly millions of #web application #attack triggers across the Akamai Edge #network. Q1 2015 set a record for the number of DDoS attacks – more than double the number recorded in Q1 2014 – and a jump of more than 35 percent compared to last […]

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Default Credentials Lead to Massive DDoS-For-Hire Botnet

13

May

2015

Tens of thousands of home and office-based routers have been hijacked over the last several months to form a botnet used to stage a #ddos campaign. The attacks first surfaced at the tail end of last year, around Dec. 29, and after a short reprieve, spiked twofold over the last month. The web #security firm Incapsula […]

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