Security Through Confusion – The FUD Factor
Daniel Cid The FUD factor has been employed by sales and marketing teams from multiple industries for decades. It stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) and…
SSH Brute Force Compromises Leading to DDoS
A few weeks ago we ran an experiment to see how long it would take for some IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers to be compromised via…
What is the Status of IPv6 Adoption?
The internet is a complex ecosystem of interconnected devices, and at its core is the Internet Protocol (IP). This protocol is currently in its second…
Hacked Website Report – 2016/Q2
Today we’re releasing our quarterly Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2. The data in this report is based on compromised websites we worked on, with insights…
Product Update: Sucuri Firewall in Tokyo, Japan
For the last couple of years, we have been transitioning the Sucuri Firewall (WAF) away from the cloud and expanding it to run on top…
IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack
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…
IPv4 vs IPv6 Performance Comparison
IPv6 usage has been growing very slowly through the last 10 to 15 years. Since mid-2015 it started to pick up and increase adoption at…
Browser/OS Statistics From Half Billion Blocked Attacks
The need to make better sense of markets is paramount to the way businesses are run and decisions are made. We see this with the…
PCI for SMB – Requirement 2- Do Not Use Defaults
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. If you have an ecommerce website and you accept credit cards from your clients, you probably already heard…
Realstatistics Malware Campaign Leads To Ransomware
Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the last two weeks ( codenamed “Realstatistics“). This campaign has compromised thousands of websites built…
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 of the intensity and duration of…