BSI warns of DDoS attacks on Black Friday & Cyber Monday
The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) expects unusually strong DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) on online platforms on the Black Friday (26.11.21/29.11.21/21,8) and Cyber Monday (28/XNUMX/XNUMX) campaign days as well as during the Christmas business . The BSI therefore advises online retailers and organizations in the e-commerce sector in particular to prepare suitable countermeasures. The BSI has published a cyber security warning for this purpose and recommends not responding to any attempts at extortion. Comment by BSI President Schönbohm “In the past few weeks we have observed DDoS attacks with up to XNUMX million requests per second (MRPS). This corresponds to an increase of XNUMX percent over before ...