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CSPs Need to Adopt Smarter Ways to Combat Evolving DDoS Attacks
Donny Chong is the Product Director at Nexusguard. He is responsible for designing the company's solutions for the enterprise. His broad ten-year tenure includes...
570% Increase in Bit-and-Piece DDoS Attacks: Research
The second quarter of 2020 witnessed an unprecedented increase in DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year. According to Nexusguard Q2 2020...
New Zealand Stock Exchange Halted Operations Due to DDoS Attacks
The New Zealand stock exchange NZX Ltd. went offline for three days in a row due to a blow of successive cyberattacks. In a...
Lucifer Malware Exploits Windows Vulnerabilities to Launch DDoS Attacks
Security experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new malware dubbed “Lucifer” targeting Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The researchers...
Understanding Weaponized DDoS Attacks
Contributed by Rod Arthur
Modern cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated. Standard modern attacks are multi-stage attacks rather than infection by a single malware executable. DDoS...
Cryptojacking Attacks Rise As Hackers Try to Exploit Linux-based Machines
Researchers at Bitdefender Security recently discovered a Romanian-based threat intelligence group hacking Linux machines and targeting systems with weak Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) credentials. The...