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Direct-Path Attacks Surge in 2022 Making Up Half of All DDoS Attacks According to Latest NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report
DDoS traffic reached a high of 436 petabits in a single day, while application-layer attacks increased 487% since 2019 WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nDDoS traffic reached a high of 436 petabits in a single day, while application-layer attacks increased 487% since 2019\n\n\n WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS protection solutions, today 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’s first report in 2005.\n\n\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\n\n“DDoS attacks threaten organizations worldwide and challenge their ability to deliver critical services,” said Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, NETSCOUT. “With multi-terabit-per-second attacks now commonplace, and bad actors’ 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.”\n\n\nAdditional highlights from NETSCOUT’s findings include:\n\n\n\nPeak 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\n\n\nDirect-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\n\n\nThe 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’s 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\n\n\nNETSCOUT ASERT analysts tracke...