DDoS attacks in Q3 2019

News overview This past quarter we observed a new DDoS attack that confirmed our earlier hypothesis regarding attacks through the Memcached protocol. As we surmised, the attackers attempted to use another, rather exotic protocol to amplify DDoS attacks. Experts at Akamai Technologies recently...

October Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the October 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live October Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

CVE-2013-5661

Cache Poisoning issue exists in DNS Response Rate Limiting...

A Web-Driven World Needs Better Web Security

Web interfaces are everywhere. From social media sites to online shopping portals to your CRM, the humble web interface is now used to access much of the online world. So, it isn’t difficult to see why web applications are a prime target for cybercriminals. Because they’re used by customers and...

UBoat - HTTP Botnet Project

A POC HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponised commercial botnet Disclaimer This project should be used for authorized testing or educational purposes only. The main objective behind creating this offensive project was to aid security researchers and to enhance the understanding of...

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against the widely-popular torrent website by malicious actors. For those unaware, The Pirate Bay was down for mor...

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against the widely-popular torrent website by malicious actors. For those unaware, The Pirate Bay was down for mor...

Mitigate then Investigate: Watch a Live DDoS Attack

Recently Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDOS, and our own David Elmaleh shared their knowledge about DDoS attacks and what it means to have industry-best protection capabilities including fast time to mitigation. They also offered insights into the critical investigation activities that must...

Cybercriminals Impersonate Russian APT ‘Fancy Bear’ to Launch DDoS Attacks

Cybercriminals posing as the Russian APT group Fancy Bear have been launching DDoS attacks against companies in the financial sector and demanding ransom payments, according to a new report. The large-scale, multi-vector DDoS attacks come with accompanying ransom letter. They started about a week...

New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites

A team of German cybersecurity researchers has discovered a new cache poisoning attack against web caching systems that could be used by an attacker to force a targeted website into delivering error pages to most of its visitors instead of legitimate content or resources. The issue could affect...

Cybercrime Tool Prices Bump Up in Dark Web Markets

Prices have been rising in the last two years for longstanding tools available on the Dark Web to help bad actors commit cyber attacks and fraud, alongside newer innovations that are emerging to bolster crimes like ransomware and SIM swapping, new research has found. Keeping track of these trends...

Europol: Ransomware remains top threat in IOCTA report

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or Europol, just released its annual Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment IOCTA report for the year. And we weren’t surprised to find that ransomware, despite its palpable decline in volume these past few months—a trend we’ve also...

Too Interested?

I was asked to investigate an incident a while back where my client was being subjected to a sizeable DDoS attack. It was causing them significant pain and, owing to the nature of their business, implementing something like CloudFlare quickly wasn’t an option. It had the hallmarks of a...

A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running

Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive year! Along with our WAF Gateways and easy-to-deploy Cloud WAF we recently added API Security, RASP, Account Takeover Protection, Bot Management, a...

Massive Gaming DDoS Exploits Widespread Technology

UPDATE Akamai Wednesday revealed that it’s witnessed the fourth-largest DDoS attack the company has ever encountered, leveraging a widespread and highly exploitable UDP amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. WSD—a consumer device network discovery and connectivity technology—was seen...

Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck

By exploiting the WS-Discovery protocol, a new breed of DDoS attack can get a huge rate of return...

New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps

Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...

News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And 'SimJacker' Active Exploit

Threatpost editors break down the biggest news stories of this week ended Sept. 13, including: Researchers warning that more than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors A Telnet backdoor opened more than 1 million Imperial Dabman IoT...

APIs Ease Customer Interaction — and External Attacks. Here’s how to Protect Them.

To deliver seamless service experiences to our customers, businesses now rely heavily on application programming interfaces APIs. These are a non-negotiable aspect of the way we streamline the interactions and conversations we have with our customers, both internal and external. APIs are now so...

Wikipedia, World of Warcraft Downed By Weekend DDoS Attacks

Attackers targeted an array of servers with a flurry of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks over the weekend, crippling online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft Classic. DDoS attacks are bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming...