Why a Resilient Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Key to Website Performance

Today’s online users have built-up certain standards of quality when visiting a website. They expect a high performance website with fast page load times and easily accessible, fresh and dynamic content. They also expect to enjoy a seamless and secure experience without downtime or limitations to...

Massive Multi-Vector 1.37 Tbps DDoS Attack Mitigated by Imperva DDoS Protection

On July 22, an Imperva customer was targeted by a network DDoS attack that reached a maximum bandwidth of 1.37 trillion bits per second Tbps, making it one of the largest attacks that Imperva has stopped and one of the larger DDoS attacks on record. The attack lasted a little over two hours in...

Record DDoS Attack with 25.3 Billion Requests Abused HTTP/2 Multiplexing

Cybersecurity company Imperva has disclosed that it mitigated a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. The "strong attack," which targeted an unnamed Chinese telecommunications company, is said to have lasted for four hours and peake...

GHSA-X996-7QH9-7FF7 Hyperledger indy-node vulnerable to denial of service

Impact An attacker can max out the number of client connections allowed by the ledger that was deployed using guidance provided in the indy-node repository, leaving the ledger unable to be used for its intended purpose. The ledger content will not be impacted by the attack, and the ledger will...

Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer

By Waqas Threat actors managed to target more than 1,800 IP addresses of a single organization, and the DDoS attack was dispersed at six different locations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Akamai Mitigated Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Against European Customer...

GitLab: No Restriction on password

Note- 1: When I report this issue to another program, the triaged expert said The server is now only hashing a reasonable size password, this should not cause a Denial of Service . Since there does not appear to be evidence of DoS occurring here So they will take action, Only when ddos appear...

Mirai Variant MooBot Botnet Exploiting D-Link Router Vulnerabilities

A variant of the Mirai botnet known as MooBot is co-opting vulnerable D-Link devices into an army of denial-of-service bots by taking advantage of multiple exploits. "If the devices are compromised, they will be fully controlled by attackers, who could utilize those devices to conduct further...

Imperva Boosts Connectivity with New PoP in Manila

We are delighted to announce the addition of a new Imperva Point of Presence PoP in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of our new data center in Manila, Philippines. The new location brings our total number of PoPs in Asia to 15, significantly boosting our presence in the region and providi...

DDOS to withdraw funds

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact DDOS to approval / withdraw mechanism Proof of Concept If someone who's not a policy is given the approval to withdraw funds by the custodian with the grantApproval function anyone can revoke his approval and prevent him from withdrawing funds from the...

Kiwi Farms Goes Offline amid DDoS Attack and Hosting Issues

By Waqas According to Kiwi Farms, prior to service disruption, the forum was targeted by a "DDoS attack and other forms of attempted network intrusion." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kiwi Farms Goes Offline amid DDoS Attack and Hosting Issues...

DDOS attack by uploading a few hundred large files

Description can normal user upload the photo to the profile not allowed photo more than 2 MB i can upload photo more allowed limit Proof of Concept https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jh0n9kOoFvW-esHgpOtPeURTYjSIhDm/view?usp=sharing...

LockBit ransomware gang blames victim for DDoS attack on its website

By Deeba Ahmed LockBit Ransomware Gang claims its leak site was hit by a massive DDoS attack allegedly carried out by security company Entrust. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LockBit ransomware gang blames victim for DDoS attack on its website...

Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack

By Waqas According to Google, the geographic distribution of the DDoS attack suggests that it might have been launched through… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack...

Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second

Google's cloud division on Thursday disclosed it mitigated a series of HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks which peaked at 46 million requests per second RPS, making it the largest such DDoS offensive recorded to date. The attack, which occurred on June 1, 2022, targeting an unnamed...

In the Fight Against DDoS Attacks, not all PoPs are Created Equal

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. A DDoS attack is launched from numerous compromised devices, often distributed globally in what ...

Largest European DDoS Attack on Record

On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...

Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022

The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...

Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun.top and TheDonald.win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trumps invitation to "be wild" in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same...

Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS...

President Putin’s Economic Forum Speech Delayed due to DDoS Attack

By Deeba Ahmed The Russian Economic Forum was taking place in St. Petersburg when its proceedings were stalled due to a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: President Putin’s Economic Forum Speech Delayed due to DDoS Attack...