For the last 18 months or so here at Arbor we’ve been recruiting ISPs that currently use Peakflow SP systems to participate in our statistics sharing program. The goal of the program is to try and better understand Internet traffic and attack characteristics over time, to include protocol and packet size distributions, attack […]
The Storm Worm is out and about with a new lure campaign, this one centered on the April Fool’s Day holiday tomorrow. The campaign appears to have started in the past few hours, and reports indicate it was in preparation for the past 24 hours or so. Example messages look like this:
Doh! April’s […]
I spend a lot of my time looking at malicious code and where it gets loaded, but I don’t get to spend much time digging into big, widespread attacks or specialized exploits. However, here’s a few links from my reading this morning that help keep me informed since I can’t spend all of […]
The Ukrainian newspaper site UA-Reporter has come under a sustained DDoS attack, starting March 19 and continuing through now. At least two different C&Cs are involved, both located in the Ukraine themselves. The English-language portion of the site is much less complete than the Ukrainian-language portion, so it’s hard to tell what stories or […]
Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks joins Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman to discuss the ins and outs of botnets.
