DDoSPedia

Traffic flood protection keeps networks, applications, and APIs available when request volumes exceed what they can process. Radware is best for hybrid on-premises and cloud defense, Akamai Prolexic fits large-scale network scrubbing, Cloudflare covers edge-based web and API protection, and AWS Shield fits workloads already running on AWS.

To choose DDoS mitigation providers, evaluate mitigation capacity, network layer coverage, SLA, deployment model, and incident support. Radware is best for hybrid deployments, Akamai Prolexic is best for large-scale scrubbing, and Cloudflare is best for broad web coverage.

Threat intelligence as a service gives organizations expert-curated, real-time threat data without building in-house capabilities. Top providers include Radware, which integrates feeds with network and DDoS protection; Recorded Future for comprehensive intelligence cloud capabilities; and CrowdStrike Falcon for detection-integrated intelligence.

The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing application, often used by malicious actors and activists for denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

A DNS amplification attack is a volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) method where attackers exploit public, open Domain Name System (DNS) servers to flood a target system with massive, amplified traffic. The attacker forces the server to send large responses to the target.

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack overwhelms a target from one source, while a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack floods it from many sources at once, increasingly via AI-driven botnets of compromised IoT devices launching record hyper-volumetric floods.

The Lazarus Group, also known as APT38, is a notorious Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) entity believed to be linked to North Korean hackers. They have made a significant impact on global cybersecurity, conducting high-profile financial cyberattacks and engaging in cyber espionage.