A new report shows that 2022 saw a 300 percent increase in carpet bomb DDoS attacks compared to 2021. Carpet bomb attacks, also known as spread-spectrum or spray attacks, distribute traffic across large IP address spaces.
As one of the easiest attacks to launch and often devastatingly effective, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is one of the most common threats in today’s cybersecurity landscape. In simple terms, a DDoS attack seeks to disrupt a target’s connectivity or user services by flooding its network with an overwhelming volume of fraudulent traffic, typically through a botnet.
DDoS attacks made up 25 percent of the cyber incidents submitted to the UK s Financial Conduct Authority in the first half of 2022, compared to just four percent in 2021.