Saturday, 29 November 2025

Multi-tiered DDoS toolkit leveraged in synchronized attacks against banking, hosting and energy industries

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has released a suite of detection and mitigation rules, a log analysis tool and a comprehensive threat advisory on the itsoknoproblembro DDoS toolkit. Considered to pose a very effective, multi-level threat, itsoknoproblembro has been the favored weapon in headline-making DDoS attacks against the US banking industry.

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London: Commenting on reports that Google and Microsoft have started warning users about active phishing attacks against Google’s online properties, Venafi says this cybercriminal fraud is a complex one that will fool most Internet users, as well as side-stepping most of their IT security systems and placing organisations at increased risk of costly breaches and reputational damage.

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