DDoS attack attempts on organizations was 237 per month or eight attack attempts a day in third quarter of 2017.
“The growing availability of DDoS-for-hire services is causing an explosion of attacks, and puts anyone and everyone into the crosshairs,” Corero CEO Ashley Stephenson said in a statement. “These services have lowered the barriers to entry in terms of both technical competence and price, allowing anyone to systematically attack and attempt to take down a company for less than $100.”
“Alongside this trend is an attacker arms race to infect vulnerable devices, effectively thwarting other attackers from commandeering the device,” Stephenson added. “Cyber criminals try to harness more and more Internet-connected devices to build ever larger botnets. The potential scale and power of IoT botnets has the ability to create Internet chaos and dire results for target victims.”
In second quarter of 2017, the attack leveraged multiple vendors “Often lasting just a few minutes, these quick-fire attacks evade security teams and can sometimes be accompanied by malware and other data exfiltration threats,” Stephenson said.
Sapio Research conducted survey on behalf of CDNetworks. It shows that 88 percent of U.S. respondents are confident in their current DDoS mitigation capabilities. Among them 69 percent got affected by DDoS attack within the past 12 months.
“The results show that most U.S. companies are mindful of the alarming recent rise in DDoS attacks, and are increasing their investment in mitigation technology in response,” CDNetworks Americas managing director Alex Nam said in a statement. “This has understandably led to a confidence in resilience. But when comparing alongside the frequency of DDoS attacks and the likelihood of their success, this confidence tips worryingly into complacency.”
There was increase in attack on gaming services and on platforms offering new financial services such as initial coin offerings (ICOs).
“Entertainment and financial services — businesses that are critically dependent on their continuous availability to users — have always been a favorite target for DDoS attacks,” Kaspersky head of DDoS protection Kirill Ilganaev said in a statement. “For these services, the downtime caused by an attack can result not only in significant financial losses but also reputational risks that could result in an exodus of customers to competitors.”
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