Security News > 2024 > August > Average DDoS attack costs $6,000 per minute

The report also found that an average DDoS attack now lasts 45 minutes-an 18% increase from last year-costing unprotected organizations approximately $270,000 per attack at an average rate of $6,000 per minute.

Increasingly, attackers are employing multi-vector DDoS attacks, which involve combining various DDoS attack methods into a brief attack and then repeating the process shortly thereafter.

It takes very little time, expertise, or investment to run a DDoS attack, and with the AI boom, bot-based attacks have made it even easier to attack more often, in a more sustained manner, and with more requests per second.

Not only did this industry experience a 308% increase in attack duration from 2023 to 2024, these companies also suffered a 200% increase in DDoS attack size.

Government entities continued to be the victims of the longest-duration attacks, with an average attack time of over six hours.

For nearly 30 years, DDoS attacks have been effective and the introduction of AI to deploy and elevate these attacks is only allowing them to evolve, growing more powerful, subversive, and frequent.

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