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Internet security services company Akamai has already dealt with the largest known ransom DDoS attack, which was also more complex than previously seen incidents of the same type. Bigger, more complex RDDoS. Akamai says that in February they dealt with "Three of the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks" the company has ever recorded.
The recently observed assaults haven't reached the magnitude of the largest DDoS attacks the company has mitigated to date, which have peaked at 1.35 Tbps in 2018 and at 1.44 Tbps in 2020, but three of them are among the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks Akamai has ever encountered. Akamai says the increased number of bigger volumetric DDoS attacks is the new norm.
We're only three months into 2021, and Akamai has mitigated 3 out of the 6 largest DDoS attacks they have ever witnessed. Hoping for a major Bitcoin payout, DDoS attackers continue to raise the bar when it comes to attack size, frequency, and target diversification.
Two high-ranked Apex Legends players have been banned from the platform for cheating by launching distributed denial-of-service attacks on an Xbox server. Top ranked 'Apex Legends' players banned over DDoS attack on Xbox.
DDoS-for-hire services are now actively abusing misconfigured or out-of-date Datagram Transport Layer Security servers to amplify Distributed Denial of Service attacks. According to reports that surfaced in December, a DDOS attack used DTLS to amplify traffic from vulnerable Citrix ADC devices that used DTLS configurations without a 'HelloClientVerify' anti-spoofing mechanism designed to block such abuse.
DDoS attacks reached a record high during the pandemic as cybercriminals launched new and increasingly complex attacks, a Link11 report reveals. The analysis showed a boom in DDoS attacks that were closely linked to the pandemic.
Over recent years, these kinds of attacks are increasing, fueling the demand for the best DDoS protection software solutions. According to the report of Market Research Inc, the DDoS protection Software Market is predicted to reach +14% CAGR by 2020 - 2028.
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is accusing threat actors located on Russia networks of performing DDoS attacks on Ukrainian government websites since February 18th. The National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the NSDC state that these DDoS attacks have been massive and have targeted government websites in the defense and security sector. While Ukraine did not directly accuse Russia of the denial of service attacks, they stated that the attackers' IP addresses were located on Russian networks.
"A surge in cryptocurrency costs may have prompted cybercriminals to re-profile some botnets so that the command-and-control servers typically used in DDoS attacks could repurpose infected devices and use their computing power to mine cryptocurrencies instead," researchers said. DDoS of course didn't go away - as people spent more time online in 2020, researchers observed a corresponding spike in DDoS attacks for most of the year.
The servers of British cryptocurrency exchange EXMO were taken offline temporarily after being targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. "We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack on our platform," the exchange said in a notification published earlier today.