Security News > 2022 > September > DDoS and bot attacks in 2022: Business sectors at risk and how to defend

According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021.
Rew, which business sectors are being attacked more often than others in 2022?
We recently covered this in our study DDoS attack trends in Q1-Q2 2022.
In games with short rounds, DDoS attacks help destroy the community and draw users to another project.
An hour of downtime due to DDoS attacks in the gaming industry costs an average of $25,000.
Can you get into details on how bot attacks work and how to defend against them?
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