Record 29.7 Tbps DDoS Attack Linked to AISURU Botnet with up to 4 Million Infected Hosts

Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second Tbps. The activity, the web infrastructure and security company said, originated from a DDoS botnet-for-hire known as AISURU, which has been...

A Perfect Storm: DDoS Attack Hits Turkish Luxury Retailer During Fall Collection Launch

When high-stakes events meet unprecedented attack volumes, disruption can be devastating. A Turkish luxury retail platform experienced this firsthand when it was hit with a record-breaking application-layer DDoS attack, peaking at 14.2 million requests per second RPS. This marks the largest DDoS...

npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Hacked in Major Attack

Aikido Security flagged the largest npm attack ever recorded, with 18 packages like chalk, debug, and ansi-styles hacked…...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

DDoS Attacks Grow More Sophisticated as Imperva Mitigates Largest Attack

Only a few months ago Imperva reported mitigating against two of the largest DDoS attacks of 2020. However, in the past few weeks we’ve observed a rise in the number of DDoS attacks against our customers where both the volume of attacks and their level of intensity have increased significantly. O...

Magecart hackers launched largest ever attack against Magento stores

By Waqas Around 1,904 individual online stores were hacked due to the outdated Magento 1 platform. Here's what happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Magecart hackers launched largest ever attack against Magento stores...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Code repository Github mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack, restoring services this morning around 9 a.m. Eastern time. According to a Github status log, connectivity problems began today around 5:30 a.m. with Github declaring it was under a DDoS attack an hour later. A request for...