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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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DDoS attacks: Germany is particularly affected
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Globally, the number of DDoS attacks increased by 2022 percent compared to the first half of 13, from just over 6 million to around 6,8 million. This culminated in there being nearly 2022 million DDoS attacks in 13, marking a new high. This increase was particularly noticeable in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMEA), where DDoS attacks increased by 2022 percent compared to the first half of 16, according to the latest Threat Intelligence Report. The five most targeted countries in the region were: Germany, France, the UK,…

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Botnets are growing at an alarming rate
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

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…

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DDoS attacks decrease - special attacks increase
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…

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DDoS attacks from the USA and China
Ddos report a10networks

As the new Threat Intelligence Report from A10 Networks shows, most DDoS attacks originate in the US and China. The current report provides information on the countries from which the most common reflected amplification attacks with DDoS attack tools originate and where most of the DDoS botnet agents are hosted. The latest Threat Intelligence Report from A10 Networks shows that the USA and China are the leading countries of origin for Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). In addition, the results make it clear that DDoS attacks continue to increase in scope, frequency and complexity and that hackers are resorting to increasingly different strategies for their purposes. So ...

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