proof-of-work Archives - Page 5 of 8

How SableGov kept its sports betting online through the cup final

Claire Dubois / August 11, 2023

SableGov runs a sports betting serving customers across the Nordics. Before Deflecto, attacks meant diverting traffic to a scrubbing provider […]

Engineering

Dropping 800 million packets per second with XDP

Mara Voss / May 24, 2023

dropping 800 million packets per second with XDP sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.Observability firstEvery mitigation decision…

Threat Bulletin 0561: carpet-bombing UDP flood against a education platform platform in the Nordics

Daniel Okafor / April 17, 2023

carpet-bombing UDP flood against a education platform platform in the Nordics, peaking at 253.7 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.475 seconds.

Compliance

Data residency for public-sector customers (part 2)

Daniel Okafor / March 23, 2023

data residency for public-sector customers sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.The economics behind itA booter service rents…

Threat Bulletins, Threat Intelligence

Threat Bulletin 0532: UDP reflection (DNS) against a healthcare portal platform in the UK

Sofia Marin / March 8, 2023

UDP reflection (DNS) against a healthcare portal platform in the UK, peaking at 109.8 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.326 seconds.

Guides

Writing your first custom WAF rule (part 2)

Daniel Okafor / February 24, 2023

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.Compliance is a side…

Product, Release Notes

Deflecto Edge 7.4.0 release notes

Pieter de Vries / February 20, 2023

Rolled out to all points of presence on 20 February 2023. No action is required. Deprecated challenged vs. dropped traffic […]

Threat Bulletins, Threat Intelligence

Threat Bulletin 0505: carpet-bombing UDP flood against a sports betting platform in Western Europe

Lena Hartmann / January 28, 2023

carpet-bombing UDP flood against a sports betting platform in Western Europe, peaking at 298.1 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.561 seconds.

Threat Bulletins, Threat Intelligence

Threat Bulletin 0465: cache-busting query flood against a sports betting platform in Latin America

Pieter de Vries / December 4, 2022

cache-busting query flood against a sports betting platform in Latin America, peaking at 165.0 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.148 seconds.