News From Deflect Labs: Botnet Targeting WordPress Websites

Author: EtienneOn: Oct 15Categories: DDoS, Deflect Labs, Deflect, News from Deflect Labs

Key Findings We identified traffic from thousands of IPs trying to brute-force WordPress websites protected by Deflect using the same user-agent (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0) since September 2017 We confirmed that...

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News From Deflect Labs: DDoS attacks against Vietnamese Civil Society

Author: EtienneOn: Sep 07Categories: DDoS, Deflect Labs, Deflect, News from Deflect Labs

Key Findings We identified 10 different DDoS attacks targeting two Vietnamese websites protected by Deflect, viettan.org and baotiengdan.com, between the 17th of April and 15th of June 2018. These attacks happened in the context of an important lack of...

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2018 IFF ‘Tools & Tech Showcase’ to feature user stories

Author: MalloryOn: Mar 02Categories: Uncategorized

The annual Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) in Valencia, Spain from 5-9 March 2018 will have hundreds of sessions and 1,700 participants from 130 countries. In addition, the 2018 IFF will feature its fourth edition of the Tools & Tech Showcase, organised...

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