New approaches, paired with the continuous pandemic, are currently creating a thriving environment for hackers. Defending against DDoS attacks has become one of the most difficult tasks for businesses all over the world. A recent DDoS attack was mitigated by an internet infrastructure firm that was nearly three times larger than any previously reported DDoS attack.
Cloudflare claims to have thwarted the world’s largest volumetric DDoS attack against a financial services company. It received 17.2 million requests per second from 20,000 bots located in 125 countries. Indonesia accounted for about 15% of the attack volume, with India and Brazil accounting for the remaining 17%.
While the firm is examining the attack’s source, analysts suspect it was carried out using a modified variant of the well-known Mirai IoT virus. Experts believe the attack was carried out by a dedicated and well-funded outfit.
DDoS Threat Landscape
Several analyses and conclusions provide insight into the rapidly evolving DDoS threat scenario.
According to a Netscout report, the average number of DDoS attacks per month will increase by 125 percent by 2020. The trend continued in 2021, with a 31 percent increase in DDoS attempts in the first quarter.
According to Atlas VPN, the United States was the target of 35 percent of all DDoS attack attempts in June 2021, followed by the United Kingdom at 29 percent.
Whitehat researchers recently shown how cybercriminals can use the TCP protocol in firewalls and other network middleboxes to execute massive DDoS attacks. DDoS reflection amplification was the name given to the research study.
By knocking crucial systems offline, DDoS attacks have the potential to bring businesses to a halt. Threat intelligence should be used by enterprises to prepare for known DDoS attackers.