"DDoS Attacks Exceeded Six Million in First Half of 2022"

According to a NETSCOUT Systems report, the number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks launched in the first half of this year exceeded six million. The NETSCOUT report is based on data gathered from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world. According to the study, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-based flood attacks, which first appeared in early 2021, are the most common attack vector, accounting for approximately 46 percent of all attacks. Domain Name System (DNS) water-torture attacks increased by 46 percent in 2022, primarily using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) query floods, while carpet-bombing attacks made a strong comeback toward the end of the second quarter, according to the report. DNS amplification attacks decreased by 31 percent in the first half of the year. However, the report noted that malware botnet proliferation increased at an alarming rate, with 488.381 nodes identified in the first half compared to 21,226 nodes a year ago. According to the report, the majority of the nodes are used to launch attacks at the application layer. Finally, a DDoS vector with TP240 PhoneHome reflection/amplifications discovered in early 2022 now has a record-breaking amplification ratio of 4,293,967,296:1. The report discovered a total of 6,019,888 global DDoS attacks in the first half of 2022. The increase in DDoS attacks coincides with the start of the Ukrainian war, but there has been an increase in DDoS attacks in Taiwan and India. DDoS attacks have also been used by competing political campaigns in Columbia. According to Richard Hummel, NETSCOUT Systems' threat intelligence research lead, in addition to increased volume, perpetrators of these attacks are also conducting more rigorous reconnaissance before launching more targeted attacks. This article continues to discuss key findings from the NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report.

Security Boulevard reports "DDoS Attacks Exceeded Six Million in First Half of 2022"