Anonymous Sudan is a highly prolific threat actor conducting distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) to support their pro-Russian, anti-Western agenda. Although the attacks...
NETSCOUT’s Arbor DDoS protection solutions, powered by our ATLAS Threat Intelligence Feed (AIF) , are continuously updated by ASERT , our team of security analysts and researchers...
Typically, application-layer protocols such as HTTP/s, QUIC, SIP, and others receive the lion’s share of attention in most discussions of internet traffic. But it’s the Domain Name...
Overview Beginning on 13 February 2022, multiple governmental, military, and financial organizations within Ukraine reported that their public-facing Web sites, applications, and...
Executive Summary The second half of 2021 finally saw much of the world returning to normal, at least until the recent Omicron variant sent us packing back home. The premature...
Threat adversaries leverage exploitable Mikrotik routers with two different botnets, Mēris and Dvinis, to launch high request-per-second attacks against targets.
NETSCOUT's ASERT Team tracks Mēris and Dvinis DDoS Botnets. The blog covers the number of botted nodes observed, how they are propagating, and where they are distributed...
Beginning in September 2021, aggressive threat actors have targeted multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communication providers with a campaign of high-impact DDoS extortion attack
Latest Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT details extensive global impact of cyberattacks on private and public sector organizations.
Given the unprecedented nature of the past 18 months, NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) fully expected that their “up and to the right” mantra would...
Learn more about this distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vector which abuses middlebox systems for HTTP reflection/amplification.
Attack frequency has dropped, but we are nowhere near the numbers considered normal prior to COVID-19: Threat actors launched approximately 5.4 million DDoS attacks in the first...
DHCPDiscover, a UDP-based JSON protocol used to manage DVRs, can be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks when an internet-exposed DVR lacks any form of...
ASERT Threat Summary Date/Time: 17June2021 1300UTC Severity: Warning Distribution: TLP: WHITE Categories: Availability Contributors: Jon Belanger, Richard Hummel. Executive Summary...
Adversaries weaponize STUN servers by incorporating the protocol into DDoS-for-Hire services. Approximately 75k abusable STUN servers give DDoS attackers ample opportunity to...
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