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DDoS Attacks Hit U.K. VoIP Providers

The primary motivation of cybercriminals always differs. Sometimes it’s financial, otherwise it is to disrupt the services and create unnecessary chaos. Threat actors steal...

DDoS Attacks in Russia Surge 2.5 Times in 2021

Russian state-sponsored threat actor groups are known for innovative attack techniques and malware campaigns, ruling the underground darknet markets with various cybercriminal activities. Russian...

5.4 Mn DDoS Attacks Reported in H1 2021, Europe and EMEA Most Affected

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks could cause severe damage to organizations’ critical systems. The number of DDoS attacks on global organizations has increased...

Threat Actors Turning to RDDoS Attacks as a New Ransom Vector

While ransomware attacks are taking the corporate world by storm, a latest analysis revealed that over 44% of businesses sustained a ransom distributed denial...

DDoS Attacks Surge, DDoS Booters Used to Exploit D/TLS Servers

Cybersecurity experts found cybercriminals leveraging DDoS booters to exploit misconfigured or outdated Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) servers to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...

DDoS Attacks Intensify in 2020 — Driven in Part by COVID-19 and 5G

Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of...