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Retail Asia15/02/2021

More than 100 financial firms were victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks by the same threat actor with North America and Europe overwhelmingly making up the dominant share, according to a recent report. Cyber intelligence sharing group FS-ISAC said that over 100 financial services firms were targets of a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – a method of […]

Retail Asia27/12/2017

On 11 November 2017, Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales hit a new record high with a 39% increase from last year’s sales. The company’s 2017 profits broke world records of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, marking this Asian sales day as one of the highest revenue sales in history. With increasing internet-user penetration, consumer behavior is […]

Retail Asia14/06/2017

The greatest DDoS risk for organisations is the barrage of short, low volume attacks which mask more serious network intrusions, Corero Network Security has warned. According to new Corero research, which highlights DDoS attack attempts against its customers, short, frequent, low-volume DDoS attacks continue to dominate. Despite several headline-dominating, high-volume DDoS attacks over the past […]

Retail Asia20/02/2017

Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased to 12 during the quarter, a 40% year-over-year increase. Seven of the 12 Q4 2016 […]

Retail Asia08/02/2017

Multinational companies located in the Asia-Pacific region now have access to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation solutions from Level 3 Communications. The new scrubbing centers in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore signify an expansion of the company’s security service functionality. The company says its security solutions provide layers of defense through enhanced network routing, […]

Retail Asia22/12/2016

The threat of IoT botnets was realized in 2016 and popularized by Mirai, according to a study by Neustar. Mirai and similar types of malware compromise IoT device credentials to enrol them into botnets, which are activated by command and control servers. As these code assemblies are published, new developments continue to emerge, such as […]

Retail Asia28/10/2016

Singapore’s StarHub has blamed DDoS attacks originating from its customers’ own infected devices for two broadband outages over the past few days. At a press conference yesterday, StarHub announced the latest findings of an investigation into the outages on October 22 and 24. Both outages lasted for around two hours, leaving many home broadband customers […]

Retail Asia18/10/2016

Singtel announced it has expended its alliance with Akamai by becoming the world’s first telco provider to have its advanced security operations centre staff certified to deliver Akamai managed security services. The two companies teamed up last month to offer DDoS mitigation services based on Akamai’s Intelligent Platform to enterprises across APAC. Now this alliance […]

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Over 100 Financial Firms Hit by DDoS Attacks

Stop DDoS from ruining your retail Brand’s sales momentum

Trojan horse DDoS attacks on the rise

IoT devices drive DDoS attack traffic in Q4

Level 3 opens DDoS scrubbing centers in APAC

Rampant growth of DDoS attacks in 2016

DDoS attacks caused StarHub broadband outages

Singtel expands MSS alliance with Akamai