November 16, 2023 at 10:22AM DDoS attacks have been increasing, particularly targeting major cloud platforms like Microsoft. These attacks aim to disrupt online services by overwhelming them with excessive traffic. The recent attacks on Microsoft employed Layer 7 DDoS attacks, which can cause significant damage with fewer resources. Anonymous Sudan, a cyber threat group, was … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 10:06AM Cloudflare has reported mitigating thousands of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited the recently disclosed HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw. Among these attacks, 89 exceeded 100 million requests per second. The total number of HTTP DDoS attack requests in Q3 2023 reached 8.9 trillion, representing a significant increase compared to previous … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 09:43AM Cloudflare has reported a significant increase in hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks in Q3 2023, surpassing previous years. These attacks overwhelm servers with garbage traffic, and exploit a new technique called ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset.’ Cloudflare also observed trends in mDNS, CoAP, and ESP attacks, indicating the emergence of new attack strategies. … Read more
October 11, 2023 at 08:24AM Tech companies including Cloudflare, AWS, and Google have responded to the HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability that led to massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. The attacks exploited the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset feature, resulting in servers being taken down. Organizations like CISA, Microsoft, NGINX, F5, Netty, Apache, Swift, and Linux distributions have issued advisories … Read more