As VoIP became the target, DDoS attacks surged by 35% in the third quarter

Security experts warn that , Q3 distributed denial of service (DDoS) Attacks surge , Number 、 Both scale and complexity increased during this period .

The findings come from Lumen Of   The third quarter DDoS The report , The report shows that the company mitigated more attacks in the quarter than 2021 More than... In the second quarter of the year 35%.

The supplier claims that , The maximum bandwidth attack it can deal with during this period is 612 Gbps, An increase of... Over the second quarter 49%. The largest packet rate based attack is cleared to 252 Mbps, increased 91%.

Lumen Express , The longest attack on customers lasted two weeks , Highlights DDoS Potentially serious impact on the organization . stay 500 In the second biggest attack , The most attacked vertical industries are telecommunications and software / technology , Followed by retail .

The supplier claims that ,28% For the first time, multi vector mitigation measures involve a complex combination of four different attack types ——DNS Zoom in 、TCP RST、TCP SYN-ACK Zoom in and out UDP Zoom in .

9 The month marks the first time DDoS The attack was recorded to 25 year , Russian suppliers Yandex Reported the largest attack ever in the same month .

However ,  According to experts That's what I'm saying , There hasn't been much change over the years , Because attacks are still relatively cheap in destroying victim organizations 、 Easy and effective .

So , In recent years ,DDoS Attackers are increasingly using such attacks to   The victim Ransom  .

Neustar 8 month A report issued    call , In the past 12 Months , More than two fifths (44%) The organization has become a ransom related DDoS (RDDoS) The target or victim of an attack .

Lumen Director of information security and Threat Intelligence Mark Dehus According to , The attack also targets new services such as voice .

“ We hope that enterprises will join in the struggle to protect themselves ,” He said .“ First , Develop reliable strategies to address all potential security issues . secondly , And mature DDoS Mitigation partners —— Especially being able to track DDoS Botnets and find new sources of partners before they attack .”