Website Attack Attempts Via Vegas Rose During Black Hat, DEF CON

By:Kelly Jackson Higgins  Posted on 8/20/2014
 
Data snapshot from Imperva shows major jump in malicious activity during security and hacker conferences in Sin City.
On a "normal" day, an average of 20 malicious web traffic events originating in Las Vegas hit Imperva's security customers. During Black Hat USA and DEF CON earlier this month, that number jumped more than 100 times the volume, according to a snapshot of data the firm compiled.
Barry Shteiman, director of security strategy at Imperva, was curious about just how much more malicious activity really does occur during big hacker-heavy conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON, so he measured the malicious traffic coming from Las Vegas the week of the two major shows and found the number reached a high of 2,612 web attacks aimed at its customers.
"I decided to test for attack traffic originating in Las Vegas during BlackHat and Defcon, and a month prior to that in order to correlate to baseline. In order to do that, we collected all of the security events during that time period from our Community Defense system, mapped Geo IPs for Nevada state, and Las Vegas specifically, then we queried the Community Defense data set for all source IPs that were in the US," Shteiman wrote in a blog post today. "Finally, we summarized by date and where the city itself is Las Vegas."
 
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