Some days before, Akamai recorded the largest DDOS record ever in the history which tried to target the largest European bank. Unfortunately, Akamai rescued it. Yesterday, Cloudflare releases a report in which it’s system detects a DDOS attack at a rate of 754 million packets per second. This attack was then regarded as the second highest and even dangerous DDOS attack after the case of Akamai. As stated in their report, this attack was part of an organized four day campaign starting on June 18 and ending on June 21 through which Cloudflare was successfully able to mitigate this DDOS attack. The team also said that the traffic was sent…
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OUTLAW BOTNET AFFECTS MORE THAN 20,000 LINUX SERVERS
DDOS attacks are emerging day by day. We know that DDOS attack is simply sending lots of packets to the remote server that server is not able to handle, thus making it unresponsive . In short, we test the limits of the remote server . But this group changed the definition . Coming back to 2018, Trend Micro Researchers unveiled a new group named Outlaw Botnet. In 2018, this group targeted Japanese art institution as well as a Bangladeshi government site over a vulnerability on Dovecot mail server. They have been involved in these cyber criminal activities for past couple of years. This time again they regain their presence and…
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DARK CREW FRIENDS ARE ATTACKING THE SITES USING CMS. HOW IS YOUR SITE DEVELOPED?
In this worldwide lockdown, many people have launched their own website to entertain people. Many of them tried a Content Management System like WordPress to create their site. The simple reason behind this is that CMS(Content Management System) automates task, saves time and money as well. But what about security and privacy of our website? Many users think that setting up a web application firewall can prevent their site from all the attacks, but Beware! Hackers are smarter than us . They don’t waste their time where we have already taken precautions instead they attack on that vulnerability which we are unaware about. Some researchers from Checkpoint have explored the…
