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DDoS Attacks Up 31% in Q1 2021: Report
If pace continues, DDoS attack activity could surpass last year s 10-million attack threshold.
Researchers recorded approximately 2.9 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2021, marking a 31% increase from the same period in 2020.
Netscout s Atlas Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) anticipated last year that the high DDoS numbers recorded in 2020 would extend into 2021. Now researchers report all three months of the first quarter surpassed the 900,000-attack mark. If this activity holds, they say, DDoS attack activity is set to exceed the 10-million attack threshold recorded last year.
This activity is unusual, the researchers say, as January and February are typically the slowest months for DDoS attacks. In 2021 they observed 972,000 attacks in January alone, beating last May s record for the highest number of attacks seen in one month.
Apr 26, 2021
The rise of the pandemic last year meant that corporates around the globe had to embrace a highly dispersed, virtualised environment to keep the wheels of business turning. This is now changing the way that banks need to move forward, with both their security as well as their service assurance.
So says Darren Anstee, chief technology officer for security at NetScout, a global provider of service assurance, security and business analytics. He explains that, at the start of 2020, digital transformation in the financial services sector was already well underway, and the intervening year has only accelerated this transformation.
Writing in a recent blog, he notes that: “The Covid-19 lockdown shut branches, forcing customers online; in fact, it is estimated that 35% of customers have increased their online banking usage during the pandemic. Customers that have grown accustomed to the speed and convenience of online banking are unlikely to revert to call centres or go bac
New record for DDoS attacks in 2020
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