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Botnets are growing at an alarming rate

30 November 2022

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…

6 million DDoS attacks worldwide

19 November 2022

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There were 2022 DDoS attacks worldwide in the first half of 6.019.888. In EMEA, DNA amplification attacks were among the top 364,261 vector attacks with a count of 20. This tool is a boost attack for a DDoS attack. This is how it expires. DNS amplification attacks took second place in the first half of 2022 as well as in the second half of 2021, according to the current Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT. In this type of DDoS attack, an enormous amount of data is directed onto the victim's Internet connection by abusing DNS name resolution in order to overload this connection. By removing IP addresses using IP spoofing...

DDoS threat landscape with millions of attacks

3 November 2022

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The EMEA region as a DDoS threat landscape reported over 1,8 million attacks in the first half of 2022, a nine percent increase from the second half of 2021, according to the latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report. War, religion and politics continue to heat up the situation. While Russia and Ukraine were the main DDoS attack targets, several countries in the region experienced unusual attack spikes attributed to the aftermath of the war. Finland, for example, reported a 249 percent increase in attacks, most likely due to the country's upcoming NATO membership. Also in Ireland there was…

Multidimensional DDoS and traffic analysis in real time

September 6, 2022

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NETSCOUT, a leading provider of cybersecurity, service assurance and business analytics solutions, has introduced Arbor Insight, a new technology that, combined with Arbor Sightline, will dramatically improve threat detection, service delivery and network operator visibility in the evolving threat landscape improved and expanded. DDoS attack volumes continue to exceed pre-pandemic levels, and the threat surface to defend against is expanding. Network operators of all sizes therefore need full, multi-dimensional visibility into the traffic flowing over their networks in order to optimize their countermeasures. The new combined solution package from Sightline and Insight…

Underestimated Application Layer DDoS Attacks

August 29, 2022

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With the rise of remote working, many organizations are embracing network architectures that allow data to be processed and stored closer to the data source. DDoS attacks on the application layer are often underestimated. Although much attention has been paid to mitigating network distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, it is crucial to also address application layer DDoS attacks, which can be of particular interest to attackers. “While DDoS attacks are well known, they should not be dismissed as the norm in the current attack landscape. Cybercriminals use the results of their application layer DDoS attacks to…

Solution for automatic DDoS attack mitigation

August 5, 2022

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NETSCOUT announces a new solution for smarter and automated DDoS attack mitigation. An innovative approach uses global visibility and AI analytics to quickly respond to DDoS attacks and reduce operational overhead. NETSCOUT, a leading provider of cyber security, service assurance and business analytics solutions, announces the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solution. This allows customers to automatically and instantly block most DDoS attacks, simplifying operations and minimizing risk to their business. ATLAS Network with DDoS Monitor The solution leverages NETSCOUT's ATLAS network, an unmatched source for insight into DDOS attack activity...

DDoS attacks decrease - special attacks increase

August 1, 2022

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According to the latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report, the number of DDoS attacks worldwide fell from 5,4 million in the first half of 2021 to 4,4 million in the second half of the year. While the total number of attacks also fell in Germany in the last half of the year, innovative and adaptive DDoS attacks continued to cause disruptions and network failures. “Cybercriminals brought a new focus by launching direct path attacks via botnets and TCP-based flood. A balance between reflection/amplification attacks and direct-path DDoS attacks has been observed for the first time. This is also evident in Germany, where TCP-based attacks are among the three most common…

E-commerce industry second largest target of cyber attacks

June 16, 2022

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According to the latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report, the German e-commerce sector recorded around 2021 DDoS attacks in the second half of 16,918. This represents an increase of 7.5% compared to the first half of 2021 and makes the industry the second strongest attack target in Germany after data processing services for the second year in a row. “Even as pandemic restrictions ease, the trend towards online shopping will continue. As cybercriminals continue to develop new techniques and methods to blackmail their targets, there is no question that an online retailer will be hit by a DDoS attack.” According to Karl Heuser...

Cyber war between Ukraine and Russia

13 April 2022

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Since mid-February 2022, NETSCOUT has been monitoring the threat landscape in Russia and Ukraine. The analysis revealed that DDoS attacks against Ukraine increased by 2022 percent in February 2021 compared to the same period in 134. On the other hand, since the conflict began, DDoS attacks against Russia have increased by around 236 percent compared to the previous month. While the frequency and volume of DDoS attacks against Russia and Ukraine have increased significantly, attacks against the EMEA region as a whole compared to the same period in 2021 decreased by…

9,7 million DDoS attacks in 2021

4 April 2022

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NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report: Attackers Embrace Innovative Techniques, Launching 9,7M DDoS Attacks in 2021. Ransomware groups, DDoS-for-Hire services, and server-class botnet armies are making more sophisticated attacks easier are to be started. NETSCOUT announced the results of its semi-annual Threat Intelligence Report. In the second half of 2021, cybercriminals launched approximately 4,4 million distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, bringing the total number of DDoS attacks in 2021 to 9,75 million. This represents a 3% decrease from the record number seen at the peak of the pandemic, but the number of attacks remains 14% above levels...

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Botnets are growing at an alarming rate

6 million DDoS attacks worldwide

DDoS threat landscape with millions of attacks

Multidimensional DDoS and traffic analysis in real time

Underestimated Application Layer DDoS Attacks

Solution for automatic DDoS attack mitigation

DDoS attacks decrease - special attacks increase

E-commerce industry second largest target of cyber attacks

Cyber war between Ukraine and Russia

9,7 million DDoS attacks in 2021

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