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Abusable Internet Censorship Systems
/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

HTTP Reflection/Amplification via Abusable Internet Censorship Systems

Learn more about this distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vector which abuses middlebox systems for HTTP reflection/amplification.

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
red wave
/ Carol Hildebrand

Our New DDoS Normal Isn’t All That Normal

Attack frequency has dropped, but we are nowhere near the numbers considered normal prior to COVID-19: Threat actors launched approximately 5.4 million DDoS attacks in the first...

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
attacker
/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

DHCPDiscover Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

DHCPDiscover, a UDP-based JSON protocol used to manage DVRs, can be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks when an internet-exposed DVR lacks any form of...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
  • DDoS Tools and Services
cyber extortion
/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

Fancy Lazarus DDoS Extortion Campaign

ASERT Threat Summary Date/Time: 17June2021 1300UTC Severity: Warning Distribution: TLP: WHITE Categories: Availability Contributors: Jon Belanger, Richard Hummel. Executive Summary...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Quarterly DDoS Update
/ Carol Hildebrand

The Beat Goes On

The beat goes on: Threat actors launched approximately 2.9 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2021, a 31% increase from the same time in 2020.

  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
connected globe
/ Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason

TsuNAME Zone Cyclic Dependency-Induced Recursive DNS Query Cascade

In mid-May 2021, security researchers at SIDN Labs, InternetNZ, and USC/ISI released a research paper describing a sabotage-based DDoS attack methodology dubbed ‘TsuNAME’ that...

  • Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts
  • Attacks and DDoS Attacks
Remote Work: A Wake-up Call for Digital Infrastructure
/ NETSCOUT

Remote Work: A Wake-up Call for Digital Infrastructure

Regardless of the technologies deployed, organizations must provide a single, unified management and security control plane that supports the changing needs of remote workers...

  • Business Continuity
  • Enterprise
  • Security
Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Can IT Deliver on User Expectations?
/ Eileen Haggerty

For Many, Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Can IT Deliver on User Expectations?

Although a large percentage of the global workforce today is working remotely, the future of this trend is uncertain. One thing that is certain is the need to assure end-user...

  • Business Continuity
  • Enterprise
5G moving forward beyond COVID-19
/ NETSCOUT

COVID Pandemic Highlights 5G Benefits

As COVID-19 dramatically changed the way we live and work, 5G’s advances have shone even more brightly. In some ways, 5G has been the technology we needed to help cope with this...

  • Business Continuity
  • Service Provider
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle: Business Continuity in a Locked-Down World
/ Darren Anstee

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle: Business Continuity in a Locked-Down World

At the start of 2020, when the word corona was associated primarily with astronomy or alcoholic beverages, digital transformation within the financial services sector was already...

  • Business Continuity
  • Enterprise
  • Security
  • Service Provider
internet highway
/ 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
DDoS Campaign
/ Richard Hummel, 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