DDoS Attacks Spiked, Became More Complex in 2020
DDoS Attacks Spiked, Became More Complex in 2020 Global pandemic and the easy availability of for-hire services and inexpensive tool sets gave adversaries more opportunities to attack. The large-scale shift to remote work and the increased reliance on online services as the result of the global pandemic this year gave threat actors new opportunities to use distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to harass and extort organizations. Providers of DDoS mitigation services reported an overall increase in attack volumes, attack sophistication, and attack complexity in 2020 compared with prior ...
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