Attack methods were also largely consistent during this spike. June was, for many, a period of lockdowns or stay-at-home orders to help contain the spread of COVID It seems that threat actors seized upon this opportunity to attack both remote workers and businesses that had begun to rely more on their online services.
It may seem like common sense to claim that the larger the attack the less frequently we would expect to see it. For example, the second most common word in the English language is used half as often as the first. The third most common word is used one-third as often as the first, and so on.
We see Zipfian distributions around the world, from natural disasters and solar flare intensities to frequency of passwords appearing in breached data sets. In Figure 5, the yellow line denotes a standard Zipfian distribution and the purple line indicates the DDoS attack sizes over the past 15 months. The attacks the SOC team observed and mitigated broadly follow a Zipfian distribution, with a few notable exceptions:.
The largest attack the SOC team encountered over the past 15 months came in February and targeted a technology company that provides information security services for gaming and gambling organizations.
The onslaught peaked at Gbps, or half a terabit per second. Threat actors, possibly disgruntled customers, threatened the victim with an imminent attack via text message. They claimed that if the victim did not pay a ransom, they would launch a DDoS campaign. While some threats and ransom demands are nothing more than a ruse, it is common for cybercriminals to demand payment in order to obviate the DDoS attack.
In this case, the threat was real, and the attackers immediately launched a 4 Gbps SYN flood attack as a warning shot; within five days of this, the siege began. Beginning early February and lasting almost the entire month, attack after attack kept coming, with the threat actors adding more and more vectors. Generally speaking, it can be extremely difficult to identify which requests to an application are genuine and which are malicious, since many organizations cannot identify which web requests come from genuine users and which come from malicious automated bots.
DDoS attacks also appear to be growing in complexity. Simple single-vectored attacks appeared to be relatively flat from Q1 to Q1 Cybercriminals used an average of 2. In these worst-case scenarios, the attackers used the following attacks simultaneously:. The information you provide will be treated in accordance with the F5 Privacy Notice. Welcome back! Need to change your email or add a new one?
Click here. Launching DDoS attacks has a very low barrier to entry for the would-be hacker. YouTube contains tutorials for creating new botnets, and DDoS-for-hire services offer cheap rates for those looking to launch an immediate attack with zero effort. Because of this, no industry is safe.
Whether it be a determined attack from an organized crime group or a politically motivated form of protest, DDoS attacks are cheap and easy to launch. Over the past few years, we have observed that the most attacked industries are education, finance, gaming, technology, and telecommunications, with the top spot changing in any given month. Simply looking at the number of attacks does not, however, tell us the whole story.
This sneaky trick lets attackers smuggle malware onto your network. Missouri apologizes to k teachers who had SSNs and private info exposed. You agree to receive updates, promotions, and alerts from ZDNet. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to receive the selected newsletter s which you may unsubscribe from at any time. You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. Cloudflare "The attack traffic originated from more than 20 bots in countries around the world.
My Profile Log Out. Join Discussion. Add Your Comment. As the global workforce shifted to remote work, devices that previously sat behind enterprise firewalls and secure environments were used at home, behind typical consumer-grade routers and network devices.
Attacks quickly exploited this by more than doubling the number of IoT-specific malware samples circulating in the wild, further contributing to the increase in DDoS attacks for DDoS attack count, bandwidth, and throughput all saw significant increases between the start of the global COVID pandemic and the end of the year.
For instance, attack frequency rose 20 percent year over year, but that includes the pre-pandemic months of January, February, and most of March. For the second half of , which was entirely pandemic-ridden, attacks rose 22 percent year over year. DDoS attacks continue to be an ever-growing threat, and recent quarterly statistics have demonstrated a shocking increase in these attacks.
Alarmingly, it is known that only a small number of such attacks are even reported and thus counted in these reports.
DDoS attacks have also evolved in complexity, with a growing number of threat vectors, increasing intensity, shifts in frequency, rising numbers of attackers and a change in the industries targeted. Experts predict that there will be as many as According to Amazon, the biggest DDoS attack on record was mitigated by them last year, with the attack reaching a peak traffic volume of 2.
There are a number of different kinds of DDoS attacks. The most common form in the third quarter of was SYN flooding, the same as the previous quarter, accounting for
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