TheBlackBerry Incident Response Team works with organizations of all sizes in every industry to evaluate and enhance their endpoint security posture and proactively maintain the security, integrity, and resilience of their network infrastructure. Whether you're under cyberattack, need to contain...
A distributed denial-of-service attack is a subcategory of the more general denial-of-service (DoS) attack. In a DoS attack, the attacker uses a single internet connection to barrage a target with fake requests or to try and exploit a cybersecurity vulnerability. DDoS is larger in scale. ...
Our main contribution is the process to combine the qualitative and quantitative estimation methods for cyber security risks, together with an insight into which technical details and variables to consider when risk assessing the DDoS amplification attack....
Advanced Persistent DoS (APDoS) is a more sophisticated and sustained form of DDoS attack. Unlike traditional DDoS attacks that may last for a few hours or days, APDoS attacks are prolonged, sometimes stretching over weeks or even months. The attackers continuously change their tactics, making i...
First of all, what is a DDoS attack? The DDoS attack is one cyber attack that is designed to influence the availability of a target system, such as a website or application, to legitimate end users. As usual, an attacker will generate a large number of packets or requests that eventually...
In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a type of cyberattack, an attacker overwhelms a website, server, or network resource with malicious traffic. As a result, the target crashes or is unable to operate, denying service to legitimate users and preventing legitimate traffic from ar...
In the first half of 2022, the cyberthreat landscape was focused around the war in Ukraine and the rise of nation state attacks and hacktivism across the world. In February, Ukraine was hit with the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever in the country’s history, impacting...
Increasingly, hackers are using DDoS not as the primary attack, but to distract the victim from a more serious cybercrime—e.g., exfiltrating data or deploying ransomware to a network while the cybersecurity team is occupied with fending off the DDoS attack. DDoS...
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the web infrastructure and web-security company stepped in to mitigate the attack against Spamhaus – and then found cyber attackers attempting to take Cloudflare itself offline. But the impact of the attack was much greater because the sheer scale of the attack caused co...