A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet.
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Vivek, Omer
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7 articles by Vivek, Omer.
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet.
In Q3, 2021 we saw and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom attacks on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service providers.
The DDoS attack trends observed over Cloudflare’s network in 2021 Q2 paint a picture that reflects the overall global cyber threat landscape. Here are some highlights of DDoS attack trends observed in 2021 Q2.
Cloudflare is named a ‘Leader’ in Forrester Wave™ for DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick.
In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods.
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March.