ISP News for the week ending April29th, 2022
Cloudflare blocks a 15rps DDOs Attack.https://blog.cloudflare.com/15m-rps-ddos-attack/ Good news regarding the chip shortage. “America’s ambitions to rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing industry took a step forward on Monday with the opening of a specialty chip fabrication plant in central New York.”https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-opens-first-major-silicon-carbide-chip-plant-in-New-York The …
DDoS attacks in high bandwidth bursts
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes …
Denial of Service and the xISP Part 1
Most service providers have been the victim of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack at one point or another. Sometimes you may not realize you are under an attack. A few months ago, I posted a simple screenshot at https://blog.j2sw.com/networking/anatomy-of-a-ddos/ of what …
Mikrotik DNS DDoS script
Do you want to protect your Mikrotik from DNS DDoS attacks? The following script looks for malformed DNS packets commonly used in DDoS attacks