High-Volume, High-Rate DDoS Attacks Persist

As expected, the numbers back up the continued proliferation of both high-volume and high-rate distributed denial of service attacks – like the ones executed via NTP amplification – over the last few months. NSFOCUS, a security firm that measures DDoS traffic, released its Mid-Year Threat Report...

Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Continue to Spike

Although the average size of a given DDoS attack is going down, the number of attacks at the upper end of the scale is increasing, with researchers at Arbor Networks reporting more than 100 attacks of 100 Gbps in the first half of this year. In order for a DDoS attack to be effective, bad guys us...

NTP Amplification Flaw To Blame For Gaming DDoS Attacks

US-CERT has issued an advisory that warns enterprises about distributed denial of service attacks flooding networks with massive amounts of UDP traffic using publicly available network time protocol NTP servers. Known as NTP amplification attacks, hackers are exploiting something known as the...