A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet tracked as Beastmode (aka B3astmode) has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of ...

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated. Distributed denial of service ...

Nokia unveils advanced DDoS countermeasures for improved protection against botnet and application-level DDoS attacks Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become more frequent, ...

A new version of Gafgyt botnet malware has been enlisting routers from Zyxel and Huawei, as well as devices with Realtek RTL81xx chipset, using them for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against servers ...

The global coronavirus crisis has dramatically increased consumer interest in e-commerce, e-learning, online communications, and entertainment. The number and frequency of DDoS attacks was a trend ...

Tens of thousands of home routers have been infected with malware and are being used by hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The router-based botnet was discovered by Web ...

Attackers are taking advantage of home routers and other devices that respond to UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) requests over the Internet in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. A ...

The BlackNurse DDoS technique has been uncovered, which lets hackers take down firewalls and servers from a laptop. BlackNurse targets vulnerable firewalls made by Cisco, PaloAlto and others, in ...

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market by Component (Hardware Solutions, Software Solutions, and Services), Application Area, Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Vertical, ...