Closure of the cybercrime platform is a major milestone, but reason for concern remains. Many companies remain deceived in thinking themselves secure.

Using the pseudonym ZZb00t, the hacker Maik D. attacked numerous companies in Germany and the UK from the end of April to the end of May 2017. The criminal court at Bielefeld has now sentenced him to one year and ten months of probation. The Link11 Insights Report on the DDoS attacks by ZZb00t describes his modus operandi.

The Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) constantly monitors developments in online DDoS attacks and publishes its analysis each quarter. In the latest issue (Q4 2017), the danger of multivector attacks was particularly noticeable in 13,452 of the attacks investigated. For the first time, 12 attack vectors were detected in a single attack.

A rising number of attacks, new emerging vectors and botnets and overall more aggressiveness is shifting the focus of unsecured organizations on DDoS attacks. There was an increasing number and duration of attacks throughout the past months along with an average rise of bandwidth.

Anexia, a global provider of managed hosting, cloud solutions and software development based in Austria with five branches in Germany, is starting a cooperation with Link11.

Starting now, the Swiss provider Litecom will offer its customers DDoS protection on the internet access level, relying on the German IT security specialist Link11’s proven DDoS protection solutions.

Its DDoS protection solutions place Link11 on the leaderboard of Germany’s most rapidly growing tech companies for the third time.

The German DDoS protection provider Link11 sets course for international growth and expands its management team

The Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) has examined the high-frequency DDoS activities of an attacker acting under the pseudonym ZZb00t. Between April and May 2017, he attacked large logistics providers, online retailers and e-commerce service providers in Germany. His targets also included a postal service as well as providers of logistic and telecommunication services in the UK.

For the third time in a row, Link11 has made it onto the Cybersecurity 500 List. The DDoS protection experts from Germany have ranked amongst the “world's hottest cybersecurity companies.”