CVE-2018-10531

An issue was discovered in the America's Army Proving Grounds platform for the Unreal Engine. With a false packet sent via UDP, the application server responds with several bytes, giving the possibility of DoS amplification, even being able to be used in DDoS attacks...

Cisco NX-OS Software 802.1X Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN Denial of Service Vulnerability

According to its self-reported version, a distributed denial of service DDoS vulnerability exists in the 802.1X implementation for Cisco NX-OS Software due to incomplete input validation of EAPOL frames. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted EAPOL frame to an...

GoBotKR Targets Pirate Torrents to Build a DDoS Botnet

A botnet dubbed GoBotKR is targeting fans of Korean TV, compromising computers via pirated copies of South Korean movies, games and TV shows available via Korean and Chinese torrent sites. Ultimately, the cybercriminals are building a network that can then be used to perform DDoS attacks of vario...

Man who carried out DDoS attacks against PSN & Xbox jailed

By Waqas The cybercriminal was also involved in several other cybercrimes including swatting and deleting databases of targeted websites. Austin Thompson, a DDoS attacker going by the online handle of Derp Trolling has been sentenced to 2.25 years 27 months in prison for conducting DDoS attacks o...

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018...

5 Years of Fighting DDoS with the Power of Akamai

Additional analysis and research provided by Principal Architect, Tom Emmons Earlier this year, Akamai celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Prolexic acquisition. The merger was officially completed in February of 2014, and a lot has happened since then. In this post, we want to spend a moment...

Finding Beauty in the IT Architecture

I have a confession to make. I’m a sucker for good architecture. Visiting places like Singapore, London, Rome, Buenos Aires, and New York City, I quickly find myself gravitating towards beautiful archways, spires, and even the voids used in designing some of the world’s most amazing buildings. I...

UK’s Largest Mobile Carrier Relies on AWS and Imperva FlexProtect for Web Delivery and 360-Degree Application Protection

In today’s highly-competitive telecommunications market, the website is integral to successful and fast customer service. Downtime due to intrusion, data breach, or DDoS attack is intolerable. It’s why ten of the largest global telecommunications providers have chosen Imperva, including BT mobile...

Every Second Counts When You’re Under Attack — Imperva Provides 3 Second DDoS Mitigation, Stops Account Takeovers & Protects your APIs

Let’s be blunt: cybersecurity is a never-ending arms race between bad actors and IT and security teams. Lately, attackers have surged. Armed with powerful, inexpensive hacking tools and deep knowledge gleaned from successful breaches, attackers are organizing sprawling botnets, probing soft targe...

Security News This Week: Telegram Says China Is Behind DDoS

Voting machine security gets a boost, Have I Been Pwned is for sale, and more of the week's top security news...

News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack

Beyond Patch Tuesday, this week was crammed with privacy and security related news. In this week’s Threatpost podcast, editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discussed the top news from the week. That includes: A federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon is recording children who use its Alexa...

Telegram CEO Fingers China State Actors for DDoS Attack

The chief executive of secure messaging app Telegram is pointing the finger squarely at China as the culprit responsible for the distributed denial of service DDoS attack that it suffered on Wednesday. The company announced the attack on Twitter, warning that users may be experiencing connection...

Telegram Suffers 'Powerful DDoS Attack' From China During Hong Kong Protests

Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack hit its servers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov later revealed that the attack was mainly coming from the...

Telegram messaging service hit by massive DDoS attack

By Waqas It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram has suffered a massive DDoS attack in which its service in the United States and several other countries has been disrupted, the company h...

Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online

The company's Project Galileo has helped organizations fend off DDoS and other attacks for the last five years...

Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Leader in Bot Management

As an established leader in cybersecurity, Imperva provides our customers the most comprehensive, analyst-recognized application security solution on the market. We are a five-time leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF. Our DDoS Protection continues to...

Web Security Leader Rapidly Expands by Partnering with AWS and Imperva

Companies try to plan and pace their growth. Those plans go out the window when a merger or acquisition happens, as it did to DigiCert Inc. DigiCert, based in Lehi, Utah, had long been a leading Certificate Authority CA, providing electronic documents that verify and authenticate the identities o...

Egyptian DDoS Campaign Observations

Between March 19 and March 25, 2019, there was a very large amount of DDoS traffic sourced from a specific Egyptian Autonomous System ASN directed at Akamai Prolexic customers. It's worth noting this is an ASN we rarely see in our pre-attack, or top source IPs during active attacks. When it showe...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2019

News overview The start of the year saw the appearance of various new tools in the arsenal of DDoS-attack masterminds. In early February, for instance, the new botnet Cayosin, assembled from elements of Qbot, Mirai, and other publicly available malware, swam into view. Cybersecurity experts were...

Sharing Threat Intelligence: Time for an Overhaul

Most organizations don’t really have a good way of sharing threat-related data outside of their own industry verticals. Sure, there are Information Sharing and Analysis Centers ISACs; i.e. FS-ISACs for the financial-services industry. But the information still tends to stay in industry-specific...