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Online retailers are planning for a big Black Friday – but so are cybercriminals. In this article, Link11’s Security Operations Center describes how retailers can prevent DDoS attacks and keep their websites safe

Blackmail by anonymous cybercriminals is an acute threat to companies of all sizes. Hackers also target administrations and government authorities. Only a comprehensive approach to IT security can offer reliable protection against the pervasive danger posed by ransomware.

Bot traffic consists of any non-human interaction with your website and applications. While some bots are essential, others can cause serious damage and are hard to identify. To manage bot traffic, organizations need a bot management solution that can distinguish between good and bad bots in real-time with no human intervention.

A typical organization with 1,000+ employees experiences over 500 bot attacks every day. While conventional tactics like WAFs and secure coding are ineffective, cloud-based solutions can identify bad bots in real-time and block them from accessing your website and applications.

Link11 protects WISAG's IT infrastructure against DDoS attacks and secures the company's increasingly digitalized working environment

Public health institutions, authorities, and educational institutions can continue to use the service free of charge until the end of the year

New partnership gives VARs access to a patented suite of security solutions including DDoS protection and Bot management

The first six months of 2020 underlined the fact that the consequences of DDoS attacks are no longer solely limited to companies that are attacked. Our timeline highlights incidents where the damage was particularly severe.

Link11 is cautioning hosting providers to beware of a new wave of DDoS blackmail attacks by the Armada Collective. As recently as mid-August, attackers using the name Fancy Bear used DDoS attacks to put pressure on operators of critical infrastructure and financial services.

Fancy Bear extortion emails demand Bitcoin transfers and threaten lengthy, high-volume attacks over 2,000 Gbps, with critical infrastructure providers targeted most