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DDoS attacks: Sharp increase, especially in EMEA
DDoS attacks: Sharp increase, especially in EMEA

In the first half of 2023, cybercriminals launched almost 8 million DDoS attacks. Germany is one of the hardest hit. Cybercriminals increased their activities in the first half of 2023. According to NETSCOUT's latest Threat Intelligence Report, threat actors launched approximately 7,9 million distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks worldwide, compared to just over 6 million of these attacks in the first half of 2022. This represents a 31 percent increase in Compared to the previous year and around 44.000 DDoS attacks per day. This increase in attack frequency was primarily seen in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where…

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More security holes in European software
More security vulnerabilities in EMEA software

Around 80 percent of applications developed in EMEA countries had at least one vulnerability. This is the result of the study “State of Software Security (SoSS) Report EMEA” by Veracode. EMEA also has the highest percentage of high-severity vulnerabilities among all regions. This means that if a vulnerability is exploited, a critical problem could arise in the respective application. Because a high number of errors and vulnerabilities in software code correlates with an increased security risk. So it's no surprise that cyberattacks on the software supply chain will hit the headlines in 2023...

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