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From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks

By The Hacker News — January 23rd 2024 at 11:33
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to learn about DDoS attack trends for Q3–Q4 of 2023, and what they mean for developing a robust
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Warning: New RapperBot Campaign Aims to Launch DDoS Attacks at Game Servers

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 16th 2022 at 07:35
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new samples of malware called RapperBot that are being used to build a botnet capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against game servers. "In fact, it turns out that this campaign is less like RapperBot than an older campaign that appeared in February and then mysteriously disappeared in the middle of April," Fortinet
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Researchers Warn of Increase in Phishing Attacks Using Decentralized IPFS Network

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 29th 2022 at 10:25
The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, which disclosed specifics of the spam campaigns, said it identified no less than 3,000 emails containing IPFS phishing URLs as an attack vector in the last three months. IPFS, short for InterPlanetary File System, is a
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