"DDoS Alert Traffic Reaches Record-Breaking Level of 436 Petabits in One Day"
According to NETSCOUT, HTTP/HTTPS application-layer attacks have increased by 487 percent since 2019, with the most significant increase occurring in the second half of 2022. Much of the increase stems from the pro-Russian group Killnet and other groups targeting websites. This type of attack preceded the invasion of Ukraine, bringing down critical financial, government, and media sites. In the second half of 2022, the greatest volume of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) alert traffic in one day reached 436 petabits and over 75 trillion packets. Service providers scrubbed a substantial portion of this traffic, while enterprises stopped an additional daily average of 345 terabytes of unwanted traffic. In the past three years, direct-path attacks have increased by 18 percent, while traditional reflection/amplification attacks have decreased by nearly the same percentage, highlighting the need for a hybrid defense strategy to withstand fluctuating attack methods. This article continues to discuss the dynamic nature of the DDoS threat landscape, DDoS attacks reaching record highs in the second half of 2022, and the rise in carpet-bombing attacks targeting ISP networks.