Security News > 2023 > April > DDoS attacks rise as pro-Russia groups attack Finland, Israel

The pro-Russia hacker group NoName057(16) reportedly claimed it was behind Denial of Service attacks against the Finnish parliament's website on Tuesday, the day the country joined NATO. The country's Technical Research Centre of Finland was also hacked, according to Finnish news site, YLE. NoName057(16) is the same group that took responsibility for a distributed denial of service attack, taking down the website for the country's parliament last August, and who also attacked Ukraine, the U.S., Poland and other European countries.

In a new study, Unveiling the New Threat Landscape, NetScout said that the U.S. national security sector experienced a 16,815% increase in DDoS attacks in the second half of 2022, many related to Killnet.

NetScout's ATLAS sensor network, which it says covers over 400 terabytes per second of international transit, collects DDoS attack statistics from an average of 93 countries daily.

The firm said exploits against websites by Killnet and other groups in the last six months of 2022 drove much of the 487% increase in HTTP/HTTPS application-layer DDoS attacks since 2019.

The company said direct-path attacks and traditional reflection/amplification attacks have increased by 18% over the past three years.

Figure B. Europe, the Middle East and Africa's optical instrument and lens manufacturing sector experienced a 14,137% increase in DDoS attacks, mainly against one major distributor with more than 6,000 attacks over the course of four months.

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