Security News > 2020 > February > The frequency of DDoS attacks depends on the day and time
DNS amplification was the most used technique for DDoS attackers in 2019 having been found in one-third of all attacks.
The proportion of DDoS attacks that involved corrupted cloud servers was 45% between January and December; this is a 16% increase over the same time period the previous year.
DDoS attacks concentrated around weekends and evenings.
The data showed that the frequency of DDoS attacks depends on the day of the week and time of the day, with most attacks concentrated around weekends and evenings.
The LSOC also saw an increase in 'carpet bombing' attacks in the latter part of 2019, which involves a flood of individual attacks that simultaneously target an entire subnet or CIDR block with thousands of hosts.
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