Security News > 2020 > September > Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020

Attackers shifted tactics in Q2 2020, with a 570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to Nexusguard.

Perpetrators used bit-and-piece attacks to launch various amplification and elaborate UDP-based attacks to flood target networks with traffic.

Analysts witnessed attacks using much smaller sizes-more than 51% of bit-and-piece attacks were smaller than 30Mbps-to force communications service providers to subject entire networks of traffic to risk mitigation.

The evolution of attacks means CSPs need to detect and identify smaller and more complex attack traffic patterns amongst large volumes of legitimate traffic.

In the past, attackers have used bit-and-piece attacks with a single attack vector to launch new attacks based on that vector.

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