"DDoS Attacks Shifting to VPS Infrastructure for Increased Power"

In the first quarter of 2023, hyper-volumetric Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks shifted from relying on compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices to exploiting compromised Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Cloudflare, an Internet security company, reports that the newer generation of botnets has abandoned the tactic of forming large swarms of individually weak IoT devices and is instead focusing on enslaving vulnerable and misconfigured VPS servers using leaked Application Programming Interface (API) credentials or known exploits. This method enables threat actors to form high-performance botnets with greater ease and speed, which can be up to 5,000 times more powerful than IoT-based botnets. This article continues to discuss findings and observations regarding DDoS attacks shifting to VPS infrastructure. 

Bleeping Computer reports "DDoS Attacks Shifting to VPS Infrastructure for Increased Power"