"DDoS Attacks Get Smaller -- But There Are More of Them"

According to new research from Nexusguard, the number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has increased by 75.6 percent, but average (0.59 Gbps) and maximum (232.0 Gbps) attack sizes decreased by 56 percent and 66.8 percent, respectively. Nexusguard's research reveals that single-vector attacks accounted for 85 percent of all attacks globally in the first half of 2022. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) attacks made up 39.6 percent of these attacks, a 77.5 percent increase from the first half of 2021, with HTTPS flood attacks accounting for the remainder. Nexusguard's report also examined the geographic distribution of attacks, findings that 74.6 percent of all reflected attacks targeted organizations in Brazil and South Korea. The UK was hit by 24.6 percent of all reflected attacks, while Seychelles and Saudi Arabia received more than half of all such attacks. According to Juniman Kasman, CTO of Nexusguard, attackers emerged from winter hibernation with new levels of intent, with a major increase in attacks in Q2 2022 alone and by June, reaching the highest first-half levels since 2018. In order to provide organizations with even more information on DDoS attacks, Nexusguard's DDoS reports have been expanded to include data on reflected attack destinations and separated Europe from the Middle East and Africa regions. The wide range of attack types calls on businesses to remain vigilant in protecting themselves from DDoS attacks. This article continues to discuss key findings from Nexusguard's new DDoS statistical report. 

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