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We want you to remember one number: 8.4 million.  

That is the number of DDoS attacks NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence saw last year alone: 23,000 attacks per day, 16 every minute. Any way you slice it, that’s a huge number of attacks.  The reality is, attackers are smart and efficient and never give up, accurately targeting attacks while using a minimum of resources. 

Enterprises and service providers need to defend themselves against attacks and protect their customers, as attackers increasingly target customer-facing services and applications and publicly exposed service infrastructure.  Even worse, adversaries sometimes use customers as conduits for attacks. Mobile phones and networks are under the gun as APT groups bump up mobile malware use, while DDoS attacks on mobile networks jumped 64 percent.  Attackers not only widely weaponized seven DDoS attack vectors, but also added new variations to existing attack vectors—and vertical sectors like satellite communications paid the price. Efficiency is their middle name: most attacks use less than 3 percent of available resources in that vector. And let’s not forget the legion of IoT botmasters salivating to belly up to the never-ending smorgasbord of vulnerable IoT devices. 

Read on for the latest in the latest NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report, with key findings from the 15^th Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) .

Vendor:

NetScout

Posted:

Feb 8, 2021

Published:

Apr 16, 2020

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PDF

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eBook