Botnets are growing at an alarming rate
According to the latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report, the number of direct path attacks increased by 2021 percent between the second half of 2022 and the first half of 11. Botnets like Mirai have given the whole thing a boost. The continued shift to direct path attacks from botnets has led to more application layer attacks, a trend that has been increasing since early last year. This growth is largely due to innovations in the botnet landscape that have been established since the 1980s. As technology has advanced, threat actors have also evolved, making the botnets…