Deflect Labs reporting

Deflect Labs Report #6 – Phishing and Web Attacks Targeting Uzbek activists

On the 16th of November 2018, we identified a large attack against several websites protected by Deflect. This attack used several professional security audit tools like NetSparker and WPScan to scan the websites eltuz.com and centre1.com.

Deflect Labs Report #5 – Baskerville

In this report, we look at the performance of the Deflect Labs’ new anomaly detection tool, Baskerville, in identifying a selection of the attacks seen on the Deflect platform during the last year.

News from Deflect Labs: DDoS attacks against Caucasian Knot

The Caucasian Knot website joined Deflect on the 19th of October, under the barrel of a massive DDoS attack that had knocked their servers offline.  Deflect logged over 7, 700, 000 queries to / on www.kavkaz-uzel.eu between 11h am and 3pm. This was by far the largest DDoS attack we have seen on Deflect in 2018.

Deflect Labs report #4 – anatomy of a booter

On the 2nd of November 2018, we identified a DDoS attack against the Deflect-protected website www.btselem.org. B’Tselem is an Israeli non-profit organisation striving to end Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. This attack is one of seventeen that we identified targeting the B’Tselem website in 2018.

News From Deflect Labs: Botnet Targeting WordPress Websites

We identified traffic from thousands of IPs trying to brute-force WordPress websites protected by Deflect using the same user-agent since September 2017, and confirmed that it is a large scale campaign against WordPress websites coming from a botnet, comprised mostly of systems in China.