Security News > 2022 > March > Malicious web application requests skyrocketing, bad actors stealthier than ever before

Radware released report findings which underscore 2021 as the year of the web application attack.

Between 2020 and 2021, the number of malicious web application requests climbed 88%, more than double the year-over-year growth rate in distributed denial-of-service attacks, which were up 37% over 2020.

The unprecedented increase in web application attacks did not prevent DDoS from making a name for itself in 2021.

The report reviews the most important cybersecurity events in 2021 and provides detailed insights into DDoS and web application attack developments as well as unsolicited network scanning trends.

Broken access control and injection attacks represented more than 75% of web application attacks.

The most attacked industries in 2021 were banking and finance, along with SaaS providers, together accounting for more than 28% of web application attacks.

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