Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

The financial services sector is still a prime target for cyber criminals and it has been widely reported that in 2020 financial institutions came under attack more than ever before. The post Why Banks Are Still A Top Target For DDoS Attacks appeared first on Blog.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

Supply Chain Risk Monitoring: A financial services firm tracked vendor vulnerabilities through a visualization platform, flagging suppliers with outdated software. For instance: Heatmaps can visualize areas of high activity that may indicate a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The largest and oldest bank in Russia Sberbank faced the record-breaking DDoS attack that reached 1 million RPS. Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The attackers successfully got a foothold on the exec’s MacBook.

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Threatpost

MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers with Akamai say that 75 percent of all credential abuse attacks against the financial services industry were targeting APIs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

Ongoing attacks could cause severe damages to multiple sectors, including transportation, communication, financial services, government facilities, nuclear reactors, and critical manufacturing. “Cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure can result in loss of life, monetary and economic issues, or reputational damage.

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