{"id":11584,"date":"2023-04-18T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:23:54","slug":"direct-path-attacks-surge-in-2022-making-up-half-of-all-ddos-attacks-according-to-latest-netscout-ddos-threat-intelligence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=11584","title":{"rendered":"Direct-path attacks surge in 2022 making up half of all DDoS attacks according to latest NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

DDoS traffic reached a high of 436 petabits in a single day, while application-layer attacks increased 487% since 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS protection solutions, announced findings from its 5th Anniversary DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that point to a new era of multi-vector attacks focused on taking down victims using application-layer and botnet-based, direct-path attacks. Attack frequency has increased tenfold since NETSCOUT\u2019s first report in 2005.
\nWith over one billion websites worldwide, HTTP\/HTTPS application-layer attacks have increased by 487% since 2019, with the most significant surge in the second half of 2022. Much of the increase comes from the pro-Russian group Killnet and others that explicitly target websites. Attacks of this nature preceded the Ukraine invasion, knocking out critical financial, government, and media sites.
\n\u201cDDoS attacks threaten organizations worldwide and challenge their ability to deliver critical services,\u201d said Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, NETSCOUT. \u201cWith multi-terabit-per-second attacks now commonplace, and bad actors\u2019 arsenals continuing to grow in sophistication and complexity, organizations need a strategy that can quickly adapt to the dynamic nature of the DDoS threat landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional highlights from NETSCOUT\u2019s findings include:
\n\u2022 Peak DDoS alert traffic in a single day reached as high as 436 petabits and more than 75 trillion packets. Service providers rigorously scrubbed a large percentage of this traffic, while enterprises eliminated an additional daily aggregate average of 345 terabytes of unwanted traffic.
\n\u2022 Direct-path attacks have increased by 18% over the past three years, while traditional reflection\/amplification attacks decreased by nearly the same, highlighting the need for a hybrid defense approach to weather the fluctuating attack methodology.
\n\u2022 The U.S. national security sector experienced a massive 16,815% increase in attacks related to the pro-Russia Killnet group, including a spike in attacks after President Biden\u2019s public remarks at the G7 Summit and another spike the same day the French and U.S. presidents re-affirmed their support for Ukraine.
\n\u2022 NETSCOUT ASERT analysts tracked over 1.35 million bots from malware families like Mirai, Meris, and Dvinis in 2022, with enterprises receiving over 350,000 security-related alerts with botnet involvement. By contrast, service providers received approximately 60,000 alerts where bots were present.
\n\u2022 Carpet-bombing attacks, a technique that simultaneously targets entire IP address ranges, increased by 110% from the first to the second half of 2022, with most attacks against ISP networks.
\n\u2022 A barrage of DDoS attacks hammered EMEA\u2019s optical instrument and lens manufacturing sector, resulting in a 14,137% increase, mainly against one major distributor with over 6,000 attacks over four months.
\n\u2022 DDoS attacks on the wireless telecommunications industry have grown 79% since 2020, primarily due to the increase in 5G wireless to the home. It accounts for 20% of all DDoS attacks for a specific industry, second only to wired telecommunications carriers.<\/p>\n

NETSCOUT’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report covers the latest trends and activities in the DDoS threat landscape. It incorporates data from NETSCOUT’s ATLAS \u2013 part of the company\u2019s Visibility Without Borders approach \u2013 along with expert insights from ASERT, NETSCOUT’s security research team. ATLAS was built over two decades through work with more than 500 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to create a sensor network that provides visibility into more than 400 Tbps of international transit every second of every day. As a result, ATLAS collects DDoS attack statistics from an average of 93 countries daily, encompassing over 50% of the world’s internet traffic.<\/p>\n

Above, Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, NETSCOUT \/ Image credited to NETSCOUT<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DDoS traffic reached a high of 436 petabits in a single day, while application-layer attacks increased 487% since 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS protection solutions, announced findings from its 5th Anniversary DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that point to a new era of multi-vector attacks focused on taking … <\/p>\n

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