Kaspersky has released its latest performance report DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service), which revealed that there was an increase of almost 24% of attacks of this type in 2021, compared to the same period in 2020.
In the investigation of the cyber-security company, it also showed that the number of DDoS attacks “Smart”, more sophisticated and targeted and can be used to disrupt services, make certain resources inaccessible or to extort money, increased by 31% in Q2021 XNUMX, which reflected an increase from the previous quarter.
The United States continues to be the country that suffers the most DDos attacks, with 40,8% of the attacks, followed by Hong Kong and China. An even more important note revealed in this recent report was also that Kaspersky detected a record number of 8.825 DDoS attacks in a single day.
For the company's engineers, they report that some of the large-scale attacks recorded in the last quarter involved a botnet called Mēris, capable of sending a high number of requests per second and that was detected in incidents that targeted two online cybersecurity publications, Krebs on Security, by noted journalist Brian Krebs, and InfoSecurity Magazine.
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It should also be noted that among the trends observed throughout the third quarter of this year, a series of politically motivated attacks in Europe and Asia and against video game creators stand out.
Cybercriminals also carried out operations to impact resources to combat the pandemic in several countries, with attacks against telecommunications providers in Canada, the US and the United Kingdom.
Speaking in reference to the released report, Alexander Gutnikov, a security expert at Kaspersky, says that the cybersecurity company has seen in recent years a competition for resources between, on the one hand, groups of cybercriminals specializing in crypto attacks, and on the other, attackers. dedicated to DDoS attacks.
"Whereas previously we saw a decline in DDoS attacks as cryptocurrencies gained in value, we are now seeing a reallocation of resources. DDoS resources are sought after and attacks are profitable. We expect to see the number of DDoS attacks increase in the fourth quarter, especially as attacks have historically been particularly high towards the end of the year.“, says the expert.
