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F5 Labs

Are You Ready to Handle 100+ Gbps DDoS Attacks—the New Normal?

2016-06-13 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

8 predictions
T1498Network Denial of Service
82%
"are you ready to handle 100 + gbps ddos attacks — the new normal? distributed denial of service ( ddos ) is a common attack method used by hacker groups and individuals to severely hamper or shut down an organization ’ s online services, causing both monetary and reputation losse…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
78%
"was published1 in multiple media channels in january this year when a group calling itself new world hacking said it initiated a successful 602 gbps ddos attack, targeting bbc websites. however, even while the group was marketing itself and its supposed largest ddos attack in his…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
77%
"latest 448 gbps attack, the f5 soc revealed that the source countries and asns used for this attack spread worldwide, a common method used to decrease the likelihood of authorities catching the perpetrators. no one has claimed responsibility for this attack as of yet, and mitigat…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
72%
"was published1 in multiple media channels in january this year when a group calling itself new world hacking said it initiated a successful 602 gbps ddos attack, targeting bbc websites. however, even while the group was marketing itself and its supposed largest ddos attack in his…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
56%
"latest 448 gbps attack, the f5 soc revealed that the source countries and asns used for this attack spread worldwide, a common method used to decrease the likelihood of authorities catching the perpetrators. no one has claimed responsibility for this attack as of yet, and mitigat…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
42%
"are you ready to handle 100 + gbps ddos attacks — the new normal? distributed denial of service ( ddos ) is a common attack method used by hacker groups and individuals to severely hamper or shut down an organization ’ s online services, causing both monetary and reputation losse…"
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
36%
"are you ready to handle 100 + gbps ddos attacks — the new normal? distributed denial of service ( ddos ) is a common attack method used by hacker groups and individuals to severely hamper or shut down an organization ’ s online services, causing both monetary and reputation losse…"
T1584.005Botnet
36%
"gbps, and two over 400 gbps. figure 1 : peak attack bandwidth in gbps, 2016 ytd figure 1 : peak attack bandwidth in gbps, 2016 ytd while the quantity of large volumetric attacks in q1 was higher, the size of attacks grew exponentially in q2, peaking at 448 gbps in june. as expect…"

Summary

DDoS attacks have been common since the late 2000s, but average attack peaks have increased to 100+ Gbps.