Recent research shows a record-breaking number of DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2021. Estimated at 5.4 million, this represents a rise of 11 percent year-on-year. This increased ...

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Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

In 2016, Dyn, a provider of managed DNS servers, was the victim of a massive DDoS attack that crippled the company's operations and took down domain-name-resolving operations for more than 175,000 ...

Another DDOS amplification technique has just recently been disclosed, NXNSAttack (technical paper here) that could be used against DNS servers. We’ve covered amplification attacks before. The short ...

Redwood City, Calif., February 5, 2015 - Nominum™, the leader in DNS and integrated applications for service providers that drive subscriber value, estimated a 100-fold growth of DNS-based DDoS ...

Microsoft has released a security advisory to mitigate the NXNSAttack vulnerability in DNS servers that could be used to amplify a single DNS request into a DDoS attack against authoritative DNS ...

Cybercriminals are now using techniques to launch distributed denial of service attacks once only available to nation-state threat actors. The last few months have seen an increase in the number of ...

In 2020 DDoS attacks continue to increase both in volume and in frequency. Nexusguard Research just reported a 542% increase in DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2020 when compared with the last ...