Security News > 2020 > August > DDoS Attacks Cresting Amid Pandemic
According to the latest Kaspersky quarterly DDoS attacks report, DDoS events were three times more frequent in comparison to the second quarter last year, and were up 30 percent from the number of DDoS attacks observed in the first quarter of 2020.
The typical annual trend for DDoS is for attacks to spike at the beginning of the year, during the peak season for businesses; while they tend to fall off in late spring and summer.
The average number of attacks per day also increased; the biggest number of attacks per day was almost 300 this quarter; while in the first quarter, the record was 242 attacks.
The longest attacks lasted a few days, which is more than half the number of the first quarter's longest-lasting attacks.
SYN flood remains the main DDoS attack tool, while ICMP attacks accounted for 4.9 percent - other types of DDoS attacks were rarely seen.
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