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(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 22, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Network solutions, a web-hosting business and domain-name registrar was recently attacked at high volume and the unfortunate incident took certain customers sites down before the mayhem was finally quelled.
The distributed denial-of-service assault lasted for all of a couple of hours before the United States company was finally able to marginalize the effects and get the system back up and running. The 120 minutes or so was all the attack needed to be rather efficient in disrupting the many websites tied to the company.
The on the Facebook page for the website, the firm did their best to give customers reassurance that the incident was being monitored and controlled. Their statement read: “The recent DDOS attack affecting some customers has now been mitigated. Customer websites should be resolving normally, and you should be able to readily access the Network Solutions site. If you continue to have issues, please contact our Customer Service team at 1-866-391-4357. Thanks to everyone for their patience as we resolved this issue.”
The motive is unknown, nor the reason for the attack. Such attacks typically are launched from unwitting individual computers that have been hacked against a single target. Black-hat hackers switched from malware-infections to creating more powerful universalized platforms.
The quarterly survey regarding DDOS mitigation is the business of Prolexic, and it placed the average volume of flooding attacks at 42.25Gbps. That is up from the all-time high of 48.25Gbps in the first quarter of 2013. The packet-per-second volume has already reached highs not seen before. It currently sits at 47.4Mbps, while the dramatic 46% is the new standard, while 32.4Mbps was the former high, also found in the first quarter of 2013.
“This quarter we logged increases for all major DDoS attack metrics, and some have been significant. DDoS attacks are getting bigger, stronger and longer,” said Stuart Scholly, president at Prolexic. “We believe this growth is being fueled by the increasing prevalence of compromised Joomla and WordPress web servers in increasingly large botnets.”
He continued Attack durations are likely increasing because perpetrators are less concerned about detection and protecting their botnets. The widespread availability of compromised web servers makes it much easier for malicious actors to replenish, grow and redeploy botnets.”
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