Inside a Sophisticated, Automated Sweepstakes Attack, and How Cequence Stopped It

Some attacks announce themselves with malformed requests and datacenter IP ranges. The most dangerous ones look exactly like your best customers. Cequence recently encountered an incident of the latter kind alongside a major consumer brand, a large, patient, and genuinely sophisticated automated abuse campaign against a high-value prize sweepstakes, and the telemetry is…

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