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Large CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
Our security operations team investigate and mitigate multiple denial of service (DDoS) attacks every single day. One recent case caught our attention because … [Read more...]
The Growing DDoS Threat to Website Owners
As website attacks continue to evolve, we see growing levels of sophistication in the way attackers are expanding the economics of their industry. The … [Read more...]
WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Campaigns
We first disclosed that the WordPress pingback method was being misused to perform massive layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks back in March … [Read more...]
The Risks of Hiring a Bad SEO Company
Today we are not going to explore malware or any other overtly malicious traffic. Instead this post is a warning about dishonest marketing tactics used by … [Read more...]
Increased Popularity in DDoS Extortion Campaigns
Over the past few months, our security operations group have identified and mitigated an increasing number of DDoS attacks tied to extortion attempts from … [Read more...]
Analyzing Popular Layer 7 Application DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a major concern for website owners for a while. All types of sites, from small to big, have been taken … [Read more...]
Common Website Security Terminology Defined
If you want to keep your website safe, it is important to understand the terminology used to describe the causes and effects of hacks. Software vulnerabilities … [Read more...]
DDoS from China – Facebook, WordPress and Twitter Users Receiving Sucuri Error Pages
Over the past few weeks, our Security Operation Center (SOC) has been seeing some different, and very suspicious requests to some of our servers. At first we … [Read more...]
