A US Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services firm, announced that it has mitigated multiple IT attacks directed against a variety of trading websites operated by London-based Henyep Capital Markets, an online trading and financial services company.
The initial DDoS attack caused performance issues on multiple Henyep trading websites for 24 hours. Company management did not respond to the DDoS attackersโ demand for a ransom in exchange for ending the attack, and instead engaged Prolexic. The companyโs mitigation engineers restored access to all services on the sites within minutes after routing traffic through Prolexicโs global scrubbing centers where malicious traffic was removed.
Prolexicโs President, Stuart Scholly said: โFinancial services companies like Henyep and their mission critical online services continue to be favorite targets of DDoS attackers. It is vitally important to have DDoS mitigation services in place from a proven, experienced provider with the global resources and bandwidth capable of handling attacks well in excess of 50 Gpbs.โ
Prolexic DDoS mitigation engineers in the US identified the initial attack as a SYN flood followed by multiple GET floods. The attack campaign peaked at 35.30 Mbps (bits per second), 8.10 Kpps (packets per second), and 122.00 Kconn (connections per second) over two days. Mitigation engineers were monitoring the attacks and counteracting the perpetratorโs changing attack vectors. As a result, the attackers were unable to take down the Henyep site, nor disrupt services despite the length of the attack.
Recently, DDoS attackers tried to take down Henyepโs trading operations again with a 30 Mbps ICMP flood and GET flood without success due to Prolexic DDoS protection. Throughout 2012, Henyep, like other financial services companies, has continued to be the target of DDoS attackers, but Prolexicโs DDoS mitigation services have prevented downtime.
โThe fact that Prolexic protects some of the biggest banks in the world gives us confidence in their DDoS mitigation expertise,โ said Henyepโs director of business development and operations. โWe can be confident in protecting our clientsโ trading activities and access to personal financial information with Prolexic. A high level of customer service is critical to our business and Prolexic DDoS protection helps us ensure 24/7 uptime.โ
The full Henyep case study can be downloaded from www.prolexic.com/henyep.
