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Politically motivated DDoS attack is nothing new in cyberspace. A study of the patterns of some high-profile attacks in Hong Kong has shown that politically motivated DDoS attacks are strategically timed to disrupt protests and its development. Hitting the right target at the critical moment might even turn unfavorable situation around.

HTML5 Ping is a common HTML5 attribute, which was found to have been turned into a DDoS attack tool.

The large attack surface of communications services providers (CSPs) allows perpetrators to set up sneaky attacks that can easily go unnoticed by conventional intrusion detection systems, but can cause significant damage when attack traffic converges at the destination.

The large attack surface of communications services providers (CSPs) allows perpetrators to set up sneaky attacks that can easily go unnoticed by conventional intrusion detection systems, but can cause significant damage when attack traffic converges at the destination.

Nexusguard’s research findings​ reveal that communications service providers (CSPs) are increasingly abused by perpetrators as a tunnel to direct DDoS attacks to their downstream networks. This new breed of attacks are carried out in a stealthy way that they can easily bypass detection. Faced with evolving DDoS attack patterns and tactics that are more difficult to detect and mitigate, service providers are presented with a dilemma. Should they just pass on the attack traffic, knowingly or unknowingly, to the victim customer?

For communications service providers (CSPs), relying on legacy solutions to provide what is known as ‘cleanpipe’ service to customers is far from enough.

Last year, the FBI cracked down on the world’s 15 biggest DDoS-for-hire websites, known as “booters”, which are believed to have mounted more than 200,000 attacks since 2014.

In Q4 2018, 50% more ASNs suffered from a new type of stealthy network attacks carried out in a piecemeal fashion.