DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago

[frogboy]

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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=19207

Akamai Technologies announced its Q3 2015 report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape.

"Akamai has been seeing greater numbers of denial of service attacks every quarter, and the upward trend continued in the most recent quarter. Although recent DDoS attacks were on average smaller and shorter, they still posed a significant cloud security risk," said John Summers, VP, Cloud Security Business Unit, Akamai. "Attacks are being fueled by the easy availability of DDoS-for-hire sites that identify and abuse exposed Internet services, such as SSDP, NTP, DNS, CHARGEN, and even Quote of the Day."

Full article. DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago

 

[Rishi]

I could easily attest to that,there used to be a site which i had been visiting in the past, it was taken down recently by a DDoS attack and still isn't up! Cloud-Flare resolver failed pretty badly.

 

[LabZero]

One reason is the ransom request to target which, if it doesn't pay, it may not work.

 

[Atlas147]

Tools for DDoS attacks are more readily available nowadays