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More than 100 financial firms were victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks by the same threat actor with North America and Europe overwhelmingly making up the dominant share, according to a recent report. Cyber intelligence sharing group FS-ISAC said…
On 11 November 2017, Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales hit a new record high with a 39% increase from last year’s sales. The company’s 2017 profits broke world records of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, marking this Asian sales day as one of the highest revenue…
The greatest DDoS risk for organisations is the barrage of short, low volume attacks which mask more serious network intrusions, Corero Network Security has warned. According to new Corero research, which highlights DDoS attack attempts against its customers,…
Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased…
Multinational companies located in the Asia-Pacific region now have access to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation solutions from Level 3 Communications. The new scrubbing centers in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore signify an expansion of the…
The threat of IoT botnets was realized in 2016 and popularized by Mirai, according to a study by Neustar. Mirai and similar types of malware compromise IoT device credentials to enrol them into botnets, which are activated by command and control servers. As…
Singapore’s StarHub has blamed DDoS attacks originating from its customers’ own infected devices for two broadband outages over the past few days. At a press conference yesterday, StarHub announced the latest findings of an investigation into the outages on…
Singtel announced it has expended its alliance with Akamai by becoming the world’s first telco provider to have its advanced security operations centre staff certified to deliver Akamai managed security services. The two companies teamed up last month to…
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