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Introducing Baskerville (waf!)

Baskerville is a machine operating on the Deflect network that protects sites from hounding, malicious bots. It's also an open source project that, in time, will be able to reduce bad behaviour on your networks too.

eQ offers Deflect website security services for free in response to COVID-19

By: dmitri On: April 27, 2020 Advocacy, DDoS, Press Release Comments Disabled

eQ offers Deflect website security services for free in response to COVID-19

Advocacy,DDoS,Press Release

In response and solidarity with numerous efforts that have sprung up to help with communications, coordination and outreach during the COVID-19 epidemic, eQualitie is offering Deflect website security and content delivery services for free until the end of 2020 to organizations and individuals working to help others during this difficult time.

Deflect Labs Report #6: Phishing and Web Attacks Targeting Uzbek Human Right Activists and Independent Media

By: Etienne On: May 09, 2019 Advocacy, DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs, News from Deflect Labs, Threat Intel Comments Disabled

Key Findings We’ve discovered infrastructure used to launch and coordinate attacks targeting independent media and human rights activists from Uzbekistan The campaign has been active since early 2016, using web and phishing attacks to suppress and exploit their targets We have no evidence of who is behind this campaign but the target list points to […]

Deflect Labs Report #5 – Baskerville

By: anna On: March 24, 2019 DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Using Machine Learning to Identify Cyber Attacks The Deflect platform is a free website security service defending civil society and human rights groups from digital attack. Currently, malicious traffic is identified on the Deflect network by Banjax, a system that uses handwritten rules to flag IPs that are behaving like attacking bots, so that they […]

News from Deflect Labs: DDoS attacks against Caucasian Knot

By: dmitri On: March 19, 2019 Advocacy, DDoS, News from Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Key Findings In November and December 2018, we identified 3 DDoS attacks against independent media website Кавказский Узел (Caucasian Knot) The first attack was by far the largest DDoS attack seen by the Deflect project in 2018, clocking over 7.7 million queries in 4 hours The three attacks used different types of relays, including open […]

Deflect Labs Report #4 – Anatomy of a booter

By: Etienne On: January 09, 2019 DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs, News from Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Key Findings We identified a DDoS attack against the Israeli human rights website www.btselem.org on the 2nd of November Attackers used three different type of relays to overload the website and were automatically mitigated by Deflect We identified the booter infrastructure (professional DDoS service) and accessed and analyzed its tools, which we describe in this article In […]

News From Deflect Labs: Botnet Targeting WordPress Websites

By: Etienne On: October 15, 2018 DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs, News from Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

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 it was not only targeting Deflect protected websites, but targeting also a large number of websites over Internet We analyze in […]

News From Deflect Labs: DDoS attacks against Vietnamese Civil Society

By: Etienne On: September 07, 2018 DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs, News from Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

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 Internet Freedom in Vietnam with regular online attacks against activists and independent media. We sorted these […]

Deflect y eQPress

By: dmitri On: August 29, 2017 DDoS, Help Comments Disabled

Sobre Deflect El proyecto Deflect es un servicio que disminuye las afectaciones de un “Distributed Denial of Service” o Ataques distribuidos de denegación de servicio (DDoS). DDoS se refiere al intento de hacer un aparato o red (network) no disponible para el usuario. Deflect neutraliza los cyberattacks contra medios independientes y defensores de derechos humanos. […]

Distributed Deflect – project review

By: dmitri On: March 23, 2017 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS, Deflect, General Comments Disabled

This is the fifth year of Deflect operations and an opportune time to draw some conclusions from the past and provide a round of feedback to our many users and peers. We fought and won several hundred battles with various distributed denial of service and social engineering attacks against us and our clients, expanding the […]

Deflect Labs report #3

By: dmitri On: December 14, 2016 DDoS, Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Botnet attack analysis of Deflect protected website blacklivesmatter.com Seamus Tuohy and eQualit.ie View the report with 3D rendering (5mb) This report covers attacks between April 29th and October 15th, 2016. Over this seven-month period, we recorded more than a hundred separate denial-of-service incidents against the official Black Lives Matter website. Our analysis shows a variety […]

Deflect Stats November 2016

By: Floriana On: December 13, 2016 Blog, DDoS, Deflect stats Comments Disabled

In November the Deflect network served pages to many legitimate visitors interested in breaking news reported by deflected websites, and mitigated automatically some intense attacks. During the month, Deflect served 585 million pages to 9.8 million visitors, with a slight increase of unique IPs as compared to our October statistics, suggesting a rise in the […]

Deflect Stats July 2016

By: Floriana On: August 03, 2016 Blog, DDoS, Deflect stats, Uncategorized Comments Disabled

From what we can conclude from our statistics, during the month of July bot controllers must have come back from their holidays, since the traffic on the Deflect network has started to increase again and we have witnessed one of the most intense bursts of DDoS attacks we had observed so far. This series of […]

Deflecting cyber attacks against the Black Lives Matter website

By: Floriana On: July 12, 2016 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS Comments Disabled

Last week and throughout the weekend, Deflect helped mitigate several DDoS attack bursts against the official Black Lives Matter website. At current estimates over 12,000 bots pounded the website just over 35 million times in 24 hours. An unusual trait of this attack was the prevalence of malicious connections originating from the US. An in-depth […]

Deflect Labs Report #2

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2016 Blog, DDoS, Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Botnet attack analysis of Deflect protected website bdsmovement.net This report covers attacks between February 1st and March 31st of six discovered incidents targeting the bdsmovement.net website, including methods of attack, identified botnets and their characteristics. It provides detailed technical information and analysis of trends with the introduction of the Bothound library for attack fingerprinting and […]

Deflect Stats April 2016

By: dmitri On: May 05, 2016 Blog, DDoS, Deflect stats Comments Disabled

April 2016 was noticeable for the amount of attacks launched against Deflect protected websites. Most of them were using the WordPress Pingback reflective attack method. Ukrainian readers topped our statistics this month, with readers from the United States, Ecuador and Russia also generating several million daily hits. An interesting set of data […]

Deflect stats March 2016

By: dmitri On: April 01, 2016 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS, Deflect Labs, Deflect stats Comments Disabled

This is the first in a monthly series of posts sharing and discussing statistics on the Deflect network. March 2016 was a busy month for us. We began to publish analytic reports on DDoS attacks against some of the clients we protect on the network. Our aim is to help the target’s advocacy efforts and […]

Deflect Labs Report #1

By: Floriana On: March 29, 2016 Blog, DDoS, Deflect Labs, Ukraine Comments Disabled

Botnet attack analysis covering reporting period February 1 – 29 2016 Deflect protected website – kotsubynske.com.ua This report covers attacks against the Kotsubynske independent media news site in Ukraine, in particular during the first two weeks of February 2016. It details the various methods used to bring down the website via distributed denial of service […]

Deflect Labs – fighting impunity with analytics and advocacy

By: dmitri On: March 29, 2016 Advocacy, DDoS, Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

For the last four years, the Deflect DDoS mitigation system has protected independent online voices from the onslaught of cyber-attacks aiming to silence them. We have grown, learning our lessons as we took the punches. One aspect of this work stood out as particularly interesting during this time: there were stories to be told in […]

Pen International gets Caisleán

By: KheOps On: January 05, 2016 DDoS Comments Disabled

PEN International is the world’s leading association of writers, working to promote literature and defend freedom of expression around the world. With a dozen permanent staff members and contact with activists all over the globe, the need for efficient collaboration tools and internal data sharing is strong. In addition, in being committed to defending civil rights, PEN International handles information […]

Deflect – 2014 in numbers

By: dmitri On: January 29, 2015 DDoS Comments Disabled

The Deflect projects protects human rights and independent media websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It is a free service for qualifying organisations and the source code is publicly available on the project wiki. In our third year of operations we protected websites from over 60 countries and present herein some interesting facts […]

Standing strong in August

By: dmitri On: September 16, 2014 DDoS Comments Disabled

Ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East saw a stream of independent media and human rights organizations turn to Deflect for DDoS protection. The network delivered over 75 million pages to legitimate readers in August, our highest numbers to date. One week in particular stood out as we brought on-board two websites in the midst of ongoing DDoS […]

DDoS mitigation on a network of principles and openness

By: dmitri On: June 12, 2014 Advocacy, DDoS, Inspiration Comments Disabled

Yesterday saw the public launch of Project Galileo, a CloudFlare initiative that partners with reputable international advocacy and civil society organizations to offer free DDoS mitigation services to human rights and independent media groups. As with our support for Google’s Project Shield last year, we welcome all attempts to bring DDoS mitigation to a wider […]

Q1 2014 Traffic Report: DDoStoyevsky’s Crimean Punishment

By: dmitri On: May 02, 2014 DDoS, Technology Comments Disabled

In the last 12 months we have seen steady growth in many aspects of the Deflect project, particularly with respect to membership, traffic, localisation and network capacity. The most significant contributing factors have been the uptake of more partners, the efficacy of our new banning software and the continued rise in DDoS attacks as a […]

Deflect Labs Report #3 (3D rendering)

By: dmitri On: December 14, 2013 DDoS, Digital Security Comments Disabled

Botnet attack analysis of Deflect protected website blacklivesmatter.com Seamus Tuohy and eQualit.ie This report covers attacks between April 29th and October 15th, 2016. Over this seven-month period, we recorded more than a hundred separate denial-of-service incidents against the official Black Lives Matter website. Our analysis shows a variety of technical methods used in attempts to […]