“Volumetric Attacks and the IoT Dominate DDoS Scene”

Nexusgaurd’s Q2 2017 Threat Report has revealed that an overwhelming majority of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that have been launched during the second quarter of 2017 were blended, multi-vector attacks. The report has also revealed that the most commonly used form of DDoS attack this quarter, is the user datagram protocol (UDP) Flood attack as it disables end users’ access to system resources by overpowering them. This article further discusses the findings of this report in relation to DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2017 including the goals, targets, and sources of such attacks. 

Infosecurity Magazine reports “Volumetric Attacks and the IoT Dominate DDoS Scene”