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/ ASERT Team

NETSCOUT’s Richard Hummel Speaks About South Korean and Romanian DDoS Trends

NETSCOUT’s Director of Threat Intelligence, Richard Hummel, was featured on Patrick Donegan’s HardenStance to discuss the latest patterns in DDoS threat activity. In this interview...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
Service Provider AIOps
/ Monica Paolini

Rethinking AIOps – It’s all about the data

I recently sat down with Rick Fulwiler, Senior Director of Product Management – AIOps at NETSCOUT, for an in-depth and insightful discussion on the foundational role that good data...

  • AIOps
Venezuela DDOS attacks
/ Max Resing

Venezuela’s Election as seen in Cyberspace

Shortly after the declaration of victory in the Venezuelan presidential election, news outlets reported widespread protests across the country. Most of the news reported focuses on...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
NoName057 Message
/ ASERT Team

DDoS Attacks in Spain

Update July 24, 2024: The DDoS hacktivists continue to add members to a coalition they now call the "holy league" as part of their self-proclaimed "holy war" against Spain. The...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
network
/ Christopher Conrad

Hacktivists Target Romania in Latest Surge in Geopolitical DDoS Attacks

Geopolitical DDoS attacks continue to become increasingly prevalent. ASERT research has discovered that Romania is the latest victim of the recent surge in these attacks.
South Korea DDoS Attacks
/ Richard Hummel

South Korea Enduring a Wave of Geopolitical DDoS Attacks

ASERT’s monitoring of DDoS attacks stemming from hacktivism and geopolitical tensions, discovered that South Korea was subject to widespread attacks. This digital assault is...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
NoName057
/ ASERT Team

Moldova Faces a Wave of DDoS Attacks

Beginning around March 6, 2024, self-proclaimed DDoS hacktivist NoName057(16) turned their attention to the country of Moldova. Since early March, more than 50 websites have been...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
world
/ Kinjal Patel

Sweden Continues to be a Prime DDoS Target as They Join NATO

In 2023, a barrage of cyber assaults against Sweden signaled a massive shift in global dynamics. As Sweden worked towards joining NATO and supporting Ukraine with arms and...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • Political DDoS
global ddos
/ Max Resing

The Unbearable Asymmetry of DDoS

Because adversaries leverage compromised and abusable online resources belonging to legitimate organizations and individuals to launch DDoS attacks, the tangible cost to attackers...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
traffic
/ John Kristoff, Kinjal Patel, Roman Lara

Nuisance Network Traffic

While there are many obvious threats like hacktivists, nation-state adversaries and ransomware operators, there also lies a constant ever-growing undercurrent that we call nuisance...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
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