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2. Linode - Wikipedia

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   Starting Christmas Day 2015 and continuing until January 10, 2016, Linode was hit by large and frequent DDoS attacks, which were being caused by a "bad actor" purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode's business. [14] Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day ...

3. DDoS-Guard - Wikipedia

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   DDoS-Guard is a Russian Internet infrastructure company which provides DDoS protection and web hosting services. [1] [2] Researchers and journalists have alleged that many of DDoS-Guard's clients are engaged in criminal activity, and investigative reporter Brian Krebs reported in January 2021 that a "vast number" of the websites hosted by DDoS-Guard are "phishing sites and domains tied to ...

4. DDoS mitigation - Wikipedia

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   DDoS attacks are executed against websites and networks of selected victims. A number of vendors offer "DDoS-resistant" hosting services, mostly based on techniques similar to content delivery networks. Distribution avoids a single point of congestion and prevents the DDoS attack from concentrating on a single target.

5. Akamai Technologies - Wikipedia

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   The servers are located in more than 200 countries and territories. [32] Receiving content from a server nearer to the user allows for faster downloads and less vulnerability to network congestion . Akamai claims to provide better scalability by delivering the content over the last mile from servers close to end-users, avoiding the middle-mile ...

6. DDoS attacks on Dyn - Wikipedia

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   The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. [6] The activities are believed to have been executed through a botnet consisting of many Internet-connected devices —such as printers , IP cameras , residential gateways and baby monitors —that had ...

7. Mirai (malware) - Wikipedia

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   The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 [2] by MalwareMustDie, [3] a white hat malware research group, and has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, including an attack on 20 September 2016 [4] on computer security journalist Brian Krebs' website, an attack on French web host ...