In 2022, the number of DDoS attacks grew 150 percent globally compared to the previous year, while the number of attacks in the Americas rose even faster, increasing 212 percent compared to 2021. These figures are from the 2022 Global Threat Analysis Report released today by Radware which also shows the frequency of DDoS attacks saw a significant uptick. Globally, organizations mitigated an average of 29.3 attacks per day during the fourth quarter of 2022, 3.5 times more compared to 8.4 attacks per day at the end of 2021. The total global attack volume recorded in 2022 was 4.44PB, an…
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15 February 2023
Attack reached 71 million requests-per-second
14 February 2023
DDoS attacks are getting nastier and more sophisticated, but Cloudflare says it is here to help.
14 February 2023
This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date. [...]
13 February 2023
Attacks on Tor networks have been ongoing for seven months now, making the service unavailable from time to time.
12 February 2023
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08 February 2023
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01 February 2023
Attacks significantly up in Europe, where almost half of all DDoS incidents targeted financial institutions.
01 February 2023
Retaliatory Russian attacks latest response to geopolitical moves
31 January 2023
After Berlin pledged tanks for Ukraine, some German websites were knocked offline temporarily by Killnet DDoS attacks.
26 January 2023
Rostelcom complains some 600 companies suffered DDoS attacks in 2022, as the conflict with Ukraine escalated.
24 January 2023
ISP Rostelecom says longest attack lasted three months
24 January 2023
Russia's largest internet service provider Rostelecom says 2022 was a record year for Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) targeting organizations in the country. [...]
23 January 2023
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12 January 2023
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11 January 2023
The Serbian government reports that it staved off five attacks aimed at crippling Serbian infrastructure.
09 January 2023
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06 January 2023
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04 January 2023
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30 December 2022
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22 December 2022