More than 8.4 million DDoS Attacks Targeted IT Infrastructures, Cloud, Mobile Networks & IoT Devices in 2019

NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence saw 8.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks last year alone: 23,000 attacks per day, 16 every minute. DDoS attacks have grown in frequency each year for the past five years, while attackers continue to unleash increasingly sophisticated attacks, says Richard Hummel, Threat Intelligence Manager, NETSCOUT. NETSCOUT, in its Threat Intelligence Report, found customer-facing services and applications were targets of DDoS attacks at two-thirds of enterprises. Customers can act as conduits for attacks: adversaries deployed a novel technique that used attacks on client services to access core services at well-protected targets. APT groups are bumping up mobile malware use, while DDoS attacks on mobile networks jumped 64 percent in the second half of 2019. Cyber criminals widely weaponized seven new or increasingly popular DDoS attack vectors in 2019 while adding new techniques to existing methods.