DDoS attacks continue to rise
In the last quarter of 2024, DDoS attacks increased by 16 percent quarter-on-quarter and 83 percent year-on-year. About seven in ten of the HTTP DDoS attacks came from known botnets. In the other HTTP DDoS attacks, attackers disguised themselves as legitimate browsers, had suspicious or unusual HTTP attributes, or resorted to other means. Cloudflare has published the 20th edition of its DDoS Threat Report. The quarterly report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current threat landscape with regard to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, based on data from the Cloudflare network. The current report focuses…