We publicly condemn the invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces, which is currently accompanied by strong cyber-attacks by Russia.
The current war is not only a war of arms, but it is also a cyber war that can affect you. We have made the following key recommendations:
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Last month, we showed you in the article “DDoS extortion cases on the application layer are starting to appear ” how the extortion and subsequent DDoS attack on a customer’s website takes place. We know that these cases are gradually increasing, but the pace is accelerating unpleasantly. In addition, we can see from the analysis of logs that attackers are trying to mask their attacks better, trying new methods and looking for the limits of protection.
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Extortion by DDoS attack is nothing new. Large botnets can carry out a fairly powerful attack nowadays, which can easily clog several 100 Gbps routes(we have already seen this happen). Fortunately, they are relatively rare because they are expensive. Medium attacks (above 10 Gbps) are encountered more frequently (even several times a month). And smaller ones (under 10 Gbps) are almost a daily occurrence. However, this classical kind of brute force attack (in terms of data volume or packet count) is relatively well detected and filtered. It is worse with application layer attacks, such as those that try to pass themselves off as normal traffic.
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Since the early morning hours of Monday 05.04.2021, our website and our infrastructure have been the target of very strong DDoS attacks, so strong that it is probably the strongest DDoS attack in the Czech Republic to date. We have prepared technical background and charts for this attack. This is just to let you know what can commonly happen on the Czech Internet.
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We’ve written a lot about our protections. We wouldn’t be here without them. We are constantly improving them and trying to stay one step ahead. However, the progress we made last year was really significant and, as it turned out at the end of the year, very important.
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It’s been about four and a half years since we started filtering traffic for web hosts with our IPS/IDS protection. Advanced threat detection and elimination system. The original filtering rules can no longer be compared to today’s. They are far more benevolent, yet more effective than ever before.
Just a week ago, I bragged on social media how we were hit by another major DDoS attack after a long time (traffic was up to 32 Gbps with 5-minute averages). Well, we almost missed the record holder. Or rather, they overslept because we didn’t even notice.
Two weeks ago, rather for the sake of interest, we published a detective story How we protected our customers’ websites from a critical bug in the WordPress plugin ThemeGrill Demo Importer. We didn’t expect it to generate such a response and get so many inquiries. That’s why we decided to write another example of the work of our security team.
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On Monday 17.02.2020, thousands of our customers’ websites faced a massive security vulnerability that could have completely wiped out their websites in a split second.
Or one detective story from behind the scenes of WEDOS. No censorship.
After publishing the previous article GDPR at WEDOS, you flooded us with questions about GDPR. Since some of them are quite often repeated, we have decided to answer the most frequent ones publicly.
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