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A recent analysis by cyber threat investigators of over 70 billion DNS records has led to the discovery of a new sophisticated malware toolkit named Decoy Dog targeting enterprise networks.  Decoy Dog, as the name implies, is evasive and employs techniques like strategic domain aging and DNS query dribbling, wherein a series of queries are transmitted to the command-and-control (C2) domains not to arouse any suspicion.

Decoy Dog is a cohesive toolkit with several highly unusual characteristics t

Cloudflare has recently released their Q1 DDoS threat report [5].  Thus, this is a good point for a discussion on DDoS attacks and some of the newer techniques involved with them.  First, we’ll get a little bit of a refresher on what DDoS attacks are, how they manifest and how things look when a service is being attacked, and how they can be detected.  From there, we’ll go into the typical mechanics of how a DDoS attack takes place and what sort of techniques and methods tend to be involved.  Th