Marlborough, MA – May 16, 2023 – Corero Network Security, the specialists in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection solutions, today released its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, revealing a 300% increase in carpet bomb DDoS attacks. Carpet bomb attacks, also known as spread-spectrum or spray attacks, distribute traffic across large IP address spaces, challenging […]
Did you know that “Meris” means “plague” in the Latvian language? Neither did we, until the Meris botnet was recently discovered. So far, this new botnet seems to leverage only one family of devices: those powered by RouterOS, an operating system from MikroTik, a Latvian company that makes routers and wireless ISP systems. The Meris […]
With 2021 coming to an end, we wanted to share these highlights from our blog series. As DDoS attacks continue to grow in complexity, sophistication and frequency, our goal is to provide you and your organization with valuable tools and references to ensure you are implementing an effective DDoS protection strategy for 2022. Top 10 […]
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Unfortunately, it’s become exponentially easier to launch a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack than it had been. There are two reasons for this evolution: In early October, the Mirai botnet source code for botnet-driven DDoS attacks was released on the dark web. Attackers have begun selling this botnet-for-hire as a service. The cost […]
New zero-day attack vector has significant amplification factor and could be used to enhance effectiveness of botnet tools used to launch recent attacks on Dyn, Krebs on Security and OVH Marlborough, MA, October 25, 2016 – Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of First Line of Defense® security solutions against DDoS attacks, has […]