Verisign recent report shows that 59 percent of distributed denial of service attacks peaked over 1 Gbps. Also, 23 percent peaked over 10 Gbps. The average peak attack size was 14.1 Gbps which is 26 percent increase over the last quarter.
The biggest attack included 60 Gbps for more than 15 hours.
“The attackers were very persistent in their attempts to disrupt the victim’s network by sending attack traffic on a daily basis for over two weeks.”
Survey also mentioned that IT services/cloud/SaaS industry was the prime target.
“In Q1 2017, Verisign observed that DDoS attacks remain unpredictable and persistent, and vary widely in terms of volume, speed and complexity,” the report mentioned. “To combat these attacks, it is becoming increasingly important to constantly monitor attacks for changes in order to optimize the mitigation strategy.”
Imperva’s Global DDoS Threat Landscape mentioned that 74 percent of DDoS attack victims were repeated.
“In the most extreme case, an established U.S.-based science news website was hit 1,046 times by low-volume bursts lasting 10 minutes or less,” Igal Zeifman, Incapsula security evangelist at Imperva, told eSecurity Planet by email. “This attack, and many other repeat assaults, fit the pattern of online harassment.”
“These attacks are a sign of the times — launching a DDoS assault has become as simple as downloading an attack script or paying a few dollars for a DDoS-for-hire service,” Zeifman added.
“Using these, non-professionals can take a website offline over a personal grievance or just as an act of cyber vandalism in what is essentially a form of Internet trolling.”
It also mentioned that the U.S. was the most targeted country and majority of attacks came from China.
Neustar’s Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights Research Report mentioned that the average cost of a DDoS attack amounts to $2.5 million in lost revenue.
“The question organizations must ask now is how they are prepared to manage these highly disruptive events,” Neustar head of research and development Barrett Lyon mentioned in a statement.
“Are they prepared for the bad day where they customers call and ask why the website is down?”
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