"Global Rise in DDoS Attacks Threatens Digital Infrastructure"

According to Nexusguard, the total number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks increased by 115.1 percent in 2022 compared to 2021 globally. The data also revealed that attackers continued to change their threat vectors by focusing on Internet Service Provider (ISP) application platforms, online databases, and cloud storage systems. As organizations transfer more workloads to the cloud, this has resulted in a more significant global impact. Although the number of DDoS attacks more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, the maximum size decreased by 48.2 percent to 361.9 gigabits per second (Gbps). The average size of attacks decreased by 22.4 percent. In 2022, 85.6 percent of DDoS threats were single-vector attacks, which is nearly identical to the percentage observed in 2021. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) based attacks were the most common, accounting for 72.5 percent and 23 percent of all attacks, respectively. This article continues to discuss key findings from Nexusguard's DDoS Statistical Report for 2022. 

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