Security News > 2021 > August > Blocked DDoS attack volumes up, tech, healthcare and finance most targeted
Second quarter blocked DDoS attack volumes were up more than 40% compared to the same period in 2020, a Radware report reveals.
The report provides an overview of DDoS attack trends by industry, as well as across applications and attack types.
According to the report, the most attacked industry in the quarter was technology, with an average of almost 3,000 attacks per company, followed by healthcare and finance.
Aggressive burst attacks waged against tech and finance companies.
Ransom denial-of-service attacks, in which the victim receives a letter with a demand to pay a ransom or become the target of a DDoS attack, have been a persistent component of the DDoS threat landscape since August of 2020.
According to the attack report, of those scans, 40% were performed by potentially malicious scanners looking to actively exploit known vulnerabilities and attack an organization.
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