Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have consistently been a chief concern of security teams. However, common misconceptions still exist. Some view that DDoS attacks are merely nuisances or inconveniences – that they are volumetric and straightforward to defend against – and that the DDoS defenses most organization use today are fully capable of rendering these threats obsolete.

The A10 Networks threat research team has investigated the HTTP/2 rapid reset vulnerability ( CVE-2023-44487), which has been identified in recent days and has advised customers on the best ways to mitigate it in their network.