Security News > 2023 > July > Surviving the 800 Gbps Storm: Gain Insights from Gcore's 2023 DDoS Attack Statistics

The maximum attack power rose from 600 to 800 Gbps. UDP flood attacks were most common and amounted to 52% of total attacks, while SYN flood accounted for 24%. In third place was TCP flood.

In 2021, the capacity of DDoS attacks was up to 300 Gbps. In 2022, the attack capacity was about 650 Gbps. In Q1-Q2 of 2023, we see a capacity of about 800 Gbps. Alt Text: Illustration of attack raising from 300 Gbps in 2021 and 650 Gbps in 2021 to 800 Gbps in 2023.

The alarming 50-100% annual increase in DDoS attack volume highlights the growing sophistication of cyber attackers and their utilization of increasingly powerful tools.

Gcore can protect you from DDoS attacks with protection against threats at L3, L4, and L7 wielding over 1 Tbps of filtering capacity.

All Gcore DDoS Protection servers are equipped with high-performance 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, enabling fast processing so we can respond to attacks as quickly as possible.

Learn how Gcore repelled a 650 Gbps attack in January 2023.

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