Deflecto Edge 19.10.0 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 17 September 2025. No action is required. New dashboard widget: Safari 19. […]
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Extortion DDoS campaigns target payment providers again (part 3)
extortion DDoS campaigns target payment providers again sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.Lessons for your own runbookKnow…
Threat Bulletin 1186: carpet-bombing UDP flood against a healthcare portal platform in the UK
carpet-bombing UDP flood against a healthcare portal platform in the UK, peaking at 389.6 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.241 seconds.
What to put in your DDoS runbook (part 3)
We get asked about what to put in your DDoS runbook more than almost anything else, so here is the long answer.What we changedWe moved the decision from a single threshold to…
Deflecto Edge 19.9.0 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 3 September 2025. No action is required. Faster rule propagation: median 27 […]
Threat Bulletin 1174: credential stuffing against a electronics retail platform in the Nordics
credential stuffing against a electronics retail platform in the Nordics, peaking at 158.4 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.467 seconds.
Writing your first custom WAF rule (part 3)
This post is about writing your first custom WAF rule. It started, as most of our posts do, with an incident that did not go the way we expected.Latency budgetOur budget for…
Why most layer 7 attacks last less than ten minutes (part 2)
We get asked about why most layer 7 attacks last less than ten minutes more than almost anything else, so here is the long answer.Lessons for your own runbookKnow who can change…
Threat Bulletin 1075: search endpoint flood against a gaming community platform in Latin America
search endpoint flood against a gaming community platform in Latin America, peaking at 229.7 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.440 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 1036: TLS handshake exhaustion against a electronics retail platform in the UK
TLS handshake exhaustion against a electronics retail platform in the UK, peaking at 960.5 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.927 seconds.
Deflecto Edge 18.2.2 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 13 February 2025. No action is required. Security: updated TLS library to […]
Threat Bulletin 1014: UDP reflection (NTP) against a education platform platform in the UK
UDP reflection (NTP) against a education platform platform in the UK, peaking at 62.8 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.768 seconds.