Earlier this year, in a country populated with over 50 million people, a series of protests began due to higher taxes, corruption and a healthcare reform proposed by the government. Although the government authorities had anticipated the protests would be widespread, no one suspected that a massive cyberattack would be launched on multiple assets of the government’s networks with the intent of bringing it down. Shortly after the attack began, a notorious group of hackers came forward and claimed responsibility for the three-wave attack lasting two weeks.
The first wave of the attack came as a surprise to the government. The wave hit 9Gbps in only 30 seconds using highly sophisticated vectors. Fortunately for this specific Government, they had been a Radware client for over 8 years.
Click the link below to see just how effective the multiple Radware DefensePro devices installed in all of the government data centers were and how catastrophic this attack could have been if the hackers succeeded: