Security News > 2020 > March > Researchers find shift in monthly web traffic amidst pandemic

The report revealed increased spikes in attacks against government and law sectors as the United States launched its Democratic primaries, and early signs of change in industry traffic and attack trends due to COVID-19.

During the month of February, Imperva began monitoring how and if the cross-border spread of COVID-19 started to affect traffic and attack trends across multiple industries and countries.

Traffic changes were detected in the News, Travel and Finance industries, however there were no major changes in the amount of attacks per industry and country.

Web attacks originating from cloud platforms saw a 27% decline for the second month in a row.

While attackers are still using cloud platforms to disseminate attacks, there was a 20% increase in attacks originating from web hosting services.

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