Security News > 2022 > April > Ransom DDoS attacks have dropped to record lows this year
It should be noted that RDDoS attacks are launched by a different type of threat actors than ransomware gangs, who use DDoS to add more pressure on the victim on top of file encryption and the threat to publish stolen data.
Cloudflare reports that ransom DDoS attacks have dropped drastically in 2022, with only 17% of its DDoS-targeted clients reporting an extortion in January, 6% in February, and just 3% in March.
That's a 28% decrease year over year and a 52% decrease compared to the last quarter of 2021 when ransom DDoS attacks spiked at 28% in the last month.
On the rising trends reflected in Q1 2022 data, Cloudflare reports a whopping 164% YoY rise in application-layer DDoS attacks.
The most noteworthy trends within that category are a 5,086% QoQ increase in application-layer DDoS attacks against the consumer electronics industry and a 2,131% QoQ increase against online media firms.
Finally, Cloudflare reports a massive uptick in volumetric DDoS attacks, with those over 100 Gbps rising by 645% QoQ and those over 10 Mpps growing by over 300% QoQ. As it has been the case for many years now, DDoS attacks aren't going out of fashion but instead change form, methods, and traffic mixing tricks, and return to knock at the door of vulnerable, poorly protected, and weak servers.
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