DDoS attack volumes increased by 50% in Q2 2018, shows Link11âs latest DDoS Report>
Global Banking & Finance
Attacks are also becoming increasingly complex, with 46% of incidents using two or more vectors. While attack volumes increased, the Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) recorded a 36% decrease in the overall number of attacks. There was a total of 9,325 attacks during the quarter: an average of 102 attacks per day. While the number of attacks decreased overall â possibly as a result of DDoS-as-a-service website Webstresser being closed down following an international police operation, both the scale and complexity of the attacks increased. The LSOC registered a 50% increase in hyper-scale attacks (80 Gbps+). The most complex attacks seen used 13 vectors in total. The report revealed that threat actors targeted organisations most frequently between 4pm CET and midnight Saturday through to Monday, with businesses in the e-commerce, gaming, IT hosting, finance, and entertainment/media sectors being the most affected. Other key findings from the Q2 report include: ⢠ The total duration of attacks during the quarter was 1,221 hours ⢠ 17% of attacks used two vectors, while 16% used three ⢠ The most frequently observed attacks were UDP floods (59.7%), TCP SYN floods (3.3%) and ICMP floods (0.9%) ⢠ Memcached was the most used reflection amplification technique, with 773 attacks observed using this tech
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