the level domain servers .cn Top field of China (TLD) have been hit with a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) yesterday, disrupting a substantial part of the Internet in China.
DDoS attack against the servers for .cn domain was the largest DDoS attack in history, according to the Internet Network Information Center China (CNNIC), the organization that administers the TLD.
In a reaction, CNNIC said the DDoS attack lasted a few hours affecting a number of sites. CEO Matthew Prince of CloudFlare, a company that provides web performance and security for millions of websites, said the Wall Street Journal that the company saw a decline of 32% of Internet traffic for the domain .cn at the attack. CNNIC said on its website that the organization is working on improving its infrastructure to prevent major DDoS attacks like this happen again.
DDoS attack trends in APAC
Last week, the supplier of the protection DDoS Nexusguard released its report DDoS trends for the Asia Pacific (APAC ). The report covers the results of its own research in the Asia Pacific region in 2012 and offers a new technology that helps protect organizations of DDoS attacks becoming more sophisticated.
The report states that Nexusguard no sector is safe . Banks, government agencies, private companies and non-profit organizations were all targets of attacks in 2012. In addition to online trading platforms attacked for criminal reasons, government agencies are also often targeted by "hacktivists" for political or ideological reasons.
large-scale attacks are relatively simple to detect and intercept, which is why the attackers have begun to develop more effective techniques :. of shell web attacks the layer 4 to layer 7 attacks attacks Even mobile devices are used to launch attacks.
These new types of attacks are very effective, according to the report Nexusguard trends. With cloud DDoS defense , organizations now have the tools that help them secure proactively their networks and systems and remain one step ahead of the attackers. With big data analysis, users can analyze customer data, the process of historical and real-time data, data from visitors to Web site identity authentication, and report and monitor real time. The trend report closes with two predictions for DDoS trends in the APAC region. API should be protected, while mobile DDoS botnets pose a new threat
The full report DDoS trends can be downloaded at :. Http://www.nexusguard.com/research.htm
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