NETSCOUT’s Arbor Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS®) has actively monitored the global internet threat landscape since 2007. Today, it provides us with visibility into approximately one-third of the global internet. With this new report, we’re sharing findings from our singular vantage point. As threats grow across the landscape, NETSCOUT’s unique position protecting enterprise networks […]
DDoS attacks
A DDoS Attack Only Needs to Be as Large as “Your” Network Pipe
As we look back over 2016, one of the most obvious stories will be the dramatic rise in the weaponization and size of DDoS attacks. At the beginning of 2016 we noted the largest attack being approximately 500Gbps. In the later months of 2016, we saw the monetization of multiple IoT-based botnet DDoS attacks that […]
Fighting DDoS Attacks with Hybrid DNS
DNS security has been in the news again, with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever disrupting the Dyn cloud DNS service. At least 150,000 compromised devices (including IoT hardware) were used by the Mirai botnet to bombard cloud-hosted DNS servers with DNS requests, taking down access to many of the Internet’s most popular services. It’s […]
