Articles about NETSCOUT

AI now a top tool for threat actors

Cyber criminals are increasingly weaponising AI to automate attacks. Nuno Ceitil, consulting systems engineer at NETSCOUT, will explain how at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026.

Obscure Technologies partners with Netscout Systems in southern Africa

Obscure Technologies can now offer Netscout’s Visibility Without Borders platform in SA and surrounding territories.

Top ICT tenders: SITA targets data centre strategy

The agency, which provides data centre services to government departments, prepares for increased utilisation of digital services.

NETSCOUT introduces Omnis Security

Omnis Security transforms packet data into real-time threat awareness indicators.

Seeing it in the numbers – new DDOS ‘normal’ is not normal in any way

According to research from NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team, threat actors launched about 5.4 million DDOS attacks in the first half of 2021.

Ransomware as a service ramps up its DDOS attack offering

Ransomware as a service is a ‘triple threat’ that turns distributed denial of service attacks into an even more lethal cyber weapon against organisations.

DDOS in a time of pandemic

NETSCOUT’s latest report shows defences against cyber attacks allow the online world to fight back.

NETSCOUT visibility enhanced by AWS expanded support for VPC traffic mirroring

As a result of this expansion, NETSCOUT is enabled to provide end-to-end visibility for security and service assurance of even more applications and services that are used in AWS.

Security, service assurance must rule financial services

Service assurance requirements mean companies must test and monitor new digital transformation projects over both wired and wireless networks to assure a quality user experience.

In the eye of the storm

A new and unenviable record has been set, as distributed denial of service attacks crossed the 10 million mark during 2020 alone.

DDOS ‘tax’ adds to an organisation’s attack burden, says NETSCOUT

DDOS attacks by threat actors don’t only have a negative effect on businesses and their customers – they also take up quantities of Internet bandwidth without paying for it.

DDOS extortion attacker impersonates well-known threat actors

A relatively prolific threat actor initiated a global campaign of DDOS extortion attacks that were mainly directed towards regional financial and travel industry targets.