It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
By now, everyone who uses the Internet has come across DDoS attacks. It is one of the oldest attack technologies on the web, and a popular way of paralyzing the huge data centers.
Just yesterday we have reported about a massive 100Gbps DDoS attack that hit World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange for 9 hours.
By now, everyone who uses the Internet has come across DDoS attacks. It is one of the oldest attack technologies on the web, and a popular way of paralyzing the huge data centers.
Just yesterday we have reported about a massive 100Gbps DDoS attack that hit World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange for 9 hours.
Arbor Networks, a leading provider of DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions, today released data on global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013, revealed that this kind of attack still represents a serious menace for IT security communities.
The document provides an interesting overview into Internet traffic patterns and threat evolution. The data show a constant growth in the number or attacks and related efficiency, the experts observed a meaningful increase (32%) for malicious traffic, the IPv4 traffic reached 69Tbps of peak, up from 47Tbps in registered in Q2.
DDoS attacks have been around since the inception of the web, but have evolved over time to become more sophisticated and powerful. The data show that the DDoS continues to be a global threat, with alarming increases in attack size this year and the last quarter was included in the 3-3.5 Gbps range.
The graph below shows the average monthly Mbps of attacks and peak Gbps of the attacks, both picture confirm the significant growth of the cyber threat
