Security News > 2022 > April > DDoS attacks at an all-time-high in Q1 2022, says Kaspersky

Kaspersky has released a report showing Distributed Denial of Service attacks hit an all-time-high in the first quarter of 2022.

The attacks detected by the security outfit easily surpassed those of the previous quarter and were up 46 per cent on the same time last year.

Russia's response to attacks on its services, according to Kaspersky, has been to fling up geofencing to restrict access from abroad and publish lists of IP addresses from where attacks allegedly originated.

As well as attacks arising from Russia's aggression in Ukraine, Kaspersky noted North Korean websites dropping offline following missile tests as well as attacks carried out on blockchain and NFT vendors.

Kaspersky noted some demanding bitcoin from victims in exchange for protection against their attacks.

While Kaspersky noted the spike in DDoS attacks coincided with the conflict in Ukraine, it also noted the US still led the way in terms of attacks targeted against it, with 44.34 percent of attacks, up from 43.55 percent in Q1 2021.

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