Security News > 2020 > September > 4.83 million DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase

"The first half of 2020 witnessed a radical change in DDoS attack methodology to shorter, faster, harder-hitting complex multi-vector attacks that we expect to continue," stated Richard Hummel, threat intelligence lead, Netscout.

More than 929,000 DDoS attacks occurred in May, representing the single largest number of attacks ever seen in a month.

4.83 million DDoS attacks occurred in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase.

Single-vector attacks fell 43% while attack throughput increased 31%, topping out at 407 Mpps. The increase in attack complexity and speed, coupled with the decrease in duration, gives security teams less time to defend their organizations from increasingly sophisticated attacks.

To determine the impact that DDoS attacks have on global Internet traffic, the Netscout ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team developed the DDoS Attack Coefficient.

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