DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, September 28, 2022 – NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. today announced findings from its 1H2022 DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. The findings demonstrate how sophisticated cybercriminals have become at bypassing defenses with new DDoS attack vectors and successful methodologies.
"By constantly innovating and adapting, attackers are designing new, more effective DDoS attack vectors or doubling down on existing effective methodologies," said Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, NETSCOUT. "In the first half of 2022, attackers conducted more pre-attack reconnaissance, exercised a new attack vector called TP240 PhoneHome, created a tsunami of TCP flooding attacks, and rapidly expanded high-powered botnets to plague network-connected resources. In addition, bad actors have openly embraced online aggression with high-profile DDoS attack campaigns related to geopolitical unrest, which have had global implications."
NETSCOUT's Active Level Threat Analysis System (ATLAS™) compiles DDoS attack statistics from most of the world's ISPs, large data centers, and government and enterprise networks. This data represents intelligence on attacks occurring in over 190 countries, 550 industries, and 50,000 autonomous system numbers (ASNs). NETSCOUT's ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) analyzes and curates this data to provide unique insights in its biannual report. Key findings from the 1H2022 NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report include:
Geopolitical Unrest Spawns Increased DDoS Attacks
As Russian ground troops entered Ukraine in late February, there was a significant uptick in DDoS attacks targeting governmental departments, online media organizations, financial firms, hosting providers, and cryptocurrency-related firms, as previously documented. However, the ripple effect resulting from the war had a dramatic impact on DDoS attacks in other countries including:
Similarly, as tensions between Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong escalated in 1H2022, DDoS attacks against Taiwan regularly occurred in concert with related public events.
Unparalleled Intelligence
No other vendor sees and knows more about DDoS attack activity and best practices in attack protection than NETSCOUT. In addition to publishing the DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, NETSCOUT also presents its highly curated real-time DDoS attack data on its Omnis Threat Horizon portal to give customers visibility into the global threat landscape and understand the impact on their organizations. This data also fuels NETSCOUT's ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) which continuously arms NETSCOUT's Omnis and Arbor security portfolio. Together with AIF, the Omnis and Arbor products automatically detect and block threat activity for enterprises and service providers worldwide.
Visit our interactive website for more information on NETSCOUT's semi-annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. You can also find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter for threat updates and the latest trends and insights.
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