How to Stop a DDoS Attack in 5 Steps
Victor Santoyo As a website administrator, keeping your site online during large traffic spikes is what you strive for. But how can you be sure traffic spikes…
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Layer 7 DDoS
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The Largest DDoS Attacks & What You Can Learn From Them
Pilar Garcia A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attack that focuses on making the website unavailable to its legitimate users. DDoS attacks can produce service interruptions,…
How to Stop a DDoS Attack
DDoS attacks are a growing threat for websites. But do you know how to stop them in their tracks? We’ll cover some essential fundamentals on…
IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack
Daniel Cid We have been monitoring a large-scale Layer 7 HTTPS flood attack (i.e., application level DDoS) against a customer over the past few weeks. It is…
The Growing DDoS Threat to Website Owners
Tony Perez As website attacks continue to evolve, we see growing levels of sophistication in the way attackers are expanding the economics of their industry. The monetization…
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 2014. The…
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,…
Anatomy of 2,000 Compromised Web Servers used in DDoS Attack
One of our clients was being attacked by a layer-7 DDoS attack for more than a week. The attack was generating around 5,000 HTTP requests…
Quick Analysis of a DDoS Attack Using SSDP
Rodrigo Montoro Last week, one of our many clients came under an interesting attack. Enough that it was flagged for human intervention. The interesting aspect of the…
Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security
Estevao Avillez A few weeks back we reported on very large Layer 7 DDOS attacks within the WordPress ecosystem. Today we decided to provide you a little…
Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack
Recently a client was experiencing a massive layer 7 DDOS attack, generating tens of thousands of random HTTP requests per second to the server. The…