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New capabilities provide deeper visibility into attack mitigation, helping organisations validate the efficacy of their automated DDoS protection. 

GUEST RESEARCH:  The cyber threat landscape saw an unprecedented surge in web-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2024, with incidents spiking by 550% compared to the previous year, according to Radware’s newly released 2025 Global Threat Analysis Report.

GUEST REVEIW:  In November 2024, DDoS attackers launched a campaign targeting Australian websites. It’s not out of the ordinary for Australian sites to be on the receiving end of DDoS attacks. However, this event was unusual, amounting to a surge of over 60 DDoS attacks on 39 different websites during the month.

GUEST RESEARCH: According to a new report from Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security leader, it costs $430,000 ($661,000) in cloud bills for an attacker to generate US$8,100 ($12,465) in cryptocurrency revenue.

GUEST OPINION: Malware perils lurk in all directions with DDoS attacks high on the danger list. According to a recent company report, the number of DDoS attacks increased by 37% while DDoS attack volumes increased 26% between 2020 and 2021. In fact, early this year, Microsoft disclosed the largest DDoS attack ever recorded at 3.47Tbps.

GUEST OPINION: Australia is progressing steadily with an open banking rollout. The Big Four banks – CBA, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank – introduced open banking in July 2021, and other banks and financial services are expected to follow in 2022. According to many fintechs, however, the introduction is going slower than expected, and they are pushing financial markets to open their banking services online by signing additional data holders.

Cyber security defenders face "increasing threats from organisations in the form of bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry and advanced distributed denial of service attacks".

Cloud and data centre services provider Micron 21 has issued a challenge to IT professionals – can you breach our multi-level security with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack?

Australian companies are too slow to take the necessary action to mitigate and manage their cyber security risks, according to a newly published report that reveals that cyber crime is expected to cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually.

DDoS attacks are on the increase with an average of 124,000 attacks per week over the last 18 months reported by one security solutions provider who warns that there is a continuing escalation in both the size and frequency of attacks.

Network protection vendor Arbor Networks says DDoS attacks in Australia don't last as long as those elsewhere in the region, but they are bigger.

A newly published global security threat report warns that companies may have been taking the wrong security measures in the face of growing threats from increased malware traffic within encrypted (https) web protocols as well as twice the number of attacks on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

F5 Networks sees DDoS attacks as the new spam, and - as with spam - multiple layers of defence are needed.

Akamai's security operation has warned that it has detected the use of the Shellshock security flaw to co-opt systems into botnets that are then used for DDoS attacks.

Akamai's Prolexic security operation has warned that home and office devices such as routers and media servers are being co-opted into distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

New Zealand web hosting and domain names provider Web Drive has selected Arbor Networks’ cloud DDoS solution to protect its own and customer networks from Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

Global cloud services security vendor Akamai Technologies has completed its acquisition of Prolexic, finalising an agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity in the security company.

China has reported what it says is one of the largest DDOS attacks in history, against .cn domain names.

eCommerce and financial services companies to be hit by increasingly sophisticated attacks and attackers in 2013.

SYDNEY, May 14. Imperva, the data security leader, has uncovered a new DDoS attack that appears to be more powerful, more efficient and less traceable than traditional methods.