DDOS Financial Services Passwords 
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 22, 2021
Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 14, 2022
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cripple an organization, a network, or even an entire country, and they show no sign of slowing down. DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. The most recent wave happened in December 2021.
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Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
financial services firm Ameriprise uses the domain ameriprise.com; the Disneyland Team’s domain for Ameriprise customers is [link] [brackets added to defang the domain], which displays in the browser URL bar as ? For example, one domain the gang has used since March 2022 is ushank[.]com com — which was created to phish U.S.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 16, 2024
To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 24, 2021
billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
The infamous Mirai botnet self-replicated by seeking out hundreds of thousands of home routers with weak or non-existent passwords. 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.
Security Affairs
MARCH 19, 2022
. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).
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