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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.
Peak attack power rose from 1.6 terabits per second in H2 2023 to 1.7 Tbps. DDoS attacks hit Gaming, tech, finance sectors hard. While the power of the attacks - first measured in Tbps in the second half of last year - increased slightly from 1.6 to 1.7 Tbps, this still poses a growing threat to organizations.
Monitoring evolving DDoS trends is essential for anticipating threats and adapting defensive strategies. The comprehensive Gcore Radar Report for the first half of 2024 provides detailed insights...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack.
The Azure outage had global reach, impacting a subset of customers attempting to connect to Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, the Azure portal itself, and a subset of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services. Many different organisations made statements on Tuesday, notifying users that their services were disrupted as a result of the Azure DDoS attack.
US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches. The feds didn't go as far as to say they expected DDoS attacks to strike the November election, but they did comment on how popular a tactic they are among politically and ideologically motivated hacktivists and cybercriminals.
CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the...
Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability. Microsoft has published its strategy to defend against network-based DDoS attacks, noting it was unique due to the global footprint of the company.
Microsoft confirmed that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which disrupted numerous Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Affected services included Microsoft Entra, Intune, Power BI, Power Platform, Azure App Services, and others.The company explained that their DDoS protection mechanisms were triggered, but an error in the implementation of their defenses exacerbated the attack's impact. Once the issue was identified, Microsoft made networking configuration changes and rerouted to alternate paths to mitigate the problem.
A DDoS attack that started on Tuesday has made a number of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services temporarily inaccessible, the company has confirmed. Microsoft's mitigation statement on the Azure status history page.