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Layer 7 DDoS

4 Largest DDoS Attacks Ever & What You Can Learn From Them

August 21, 2019Pilar Garcia

The Largest DDoS Attacks & What You Can Learn From Them

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, introduce large response delays, and cause various business losses. Denial-of-Service Attacks result in two ways —they either flood services or…

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How to Stop a DDoS Attack & Prevent Future Attacks

July 29, 2019Victor Santoyo

How to Stop a DDoS Attack & Prevent Future Attacks

DDoS attacks are a growing threat for websites. But do you know how to mitigate them in their tracks? We’ll cover some essential fundamentals on stopping a DDoS attack and…

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IoT home router ddos attack

September 1, 2016Daniel Cid

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 being distributed across 47,000 IP…

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June 14, 2016Tony Perez

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 monetization potential of attacking websites continues…

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February 17, 2016Daniel Cid

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 problem being that any WordPress website with…

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September 3, 2015Daniel Cid

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 down and…

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September 5, 2014Daniel Cid

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 per second, which took his…

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September 2, 2014Rodrigo Montoro

Quick Analysis of a DDoS Attack Using SSDP

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 case was that it was…

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May 14, 2014Estevao Avillez

Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security

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 illustration of what that looks…

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May 7, 2014Daniel Cid

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 architecture of the website included…

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February 6, 2014Daniel Cid

Layer 7 DDOS – Blocking HTTP Flood Attacks

There are many types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that can affect and bring down a website, and they vary in complexity and size. The most well known…

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