DDoS attacks decrease - special attacks increase
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…
