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F5 Labs

Organizations Seek Help Fighting App-Focused DDoS Attacks Even as Total DDoS Attack Rates Stay Flat

2018-09-14 · Read original ↗

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23 predictions
T1498Network Denial of Service
88%
"organizations seek help fighting app - focused ddos attacks even as total ddos attack rates stay flat f5 labs continually tracks ddos trends based on data from various sources. among the most important are the f5 security operations center ( soc ), the front line for mitigating d…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
82%
"as the other attack categories. figure 6 : ddos attacks mitigated by f5 soc by category, q1 and q2 2018 special attention should be paid towards the emergence of application - targeted ddos attacks. application attacks are more precise and require traffic scrubbing versus the typ…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
81%
"##ac, as well. 2 following apac was north america, which received the lowest number of attacks in a quarter over the past two and a half years. in q1, we speculated that ddos attack targets would start leveling out globally versus north america always receiving the lion ’ s share…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
75%
"applications with a web application firewall. all organizations need a ddos strategy. to help determine the right ddos solution for your organization, use the following decision - making criteria : determine the frequency with which you get hit ( or might get hit ) with ddos atta…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
72%
"learn from youtube videos how to create botnets and launch attacks that interrupt service. and they don ’ t have to be large, volumetric attacks ; they can be small, multi - vector attacks that cause sustained application performance impact. ( it ’ s also worth mentioning that th…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
70%
"by f5 soc by industry, q2 2018 ddos attack count by type the number one ddos attack type in 2018 has been udp fragmentation attacks, followed by udp flood, which was the number one attack type for the prior two years. as noted in our q1 trend report, we expect to continue seeing …"
T1498Network Denial of Service
70%
"targeted ddos attacks are a small percentage of total attacks launched, customers are clearly struggling to mitigate these attacks on their own because they account for nearly a third of all ddos calls to f5 ’ s sirt. figure 7 : percentage of total application - targeted ddos att…"
T1584.005Botnet
69%
", and these “ things ” are now the cyber weapon of choice for attackers because they are easy to compromise, they are plentiful, and they often reside in unmanaged networks where there is little chance of malware detection and remediation. attackers know this and are building bot…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
67%
"organizations seek help fighting app - focused ddos attacks even as total ddos attack rates stay flat f5 labs continually tracks ddos trends based on data from various sources. among the most important are the f5 security operations center ( soc ), the front line for mitigating d…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
66%
"one attack type in q2 ( as they were in q1 ). - application - targeted ddos attacks that don ’ t require high rates to impact service are holding at around 2 % of the total attacks received by the soc. however, application - targeted ddos attacks were 30 % all of f5 sirt cases re…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
59%
"one attack type in q2 ( as they were in q1 ). - application - targeted ddos attacks that don ’ t require high rates to impact service are holding at around 2 % of the total attacks received by the soc. however, application - targeted ddos attacks were 30 % all of f5 sirt cases re…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
56%
"targeted ddos attacks are a small percentage of total attacks launched, customers are clearly struggling to mitigate these attacks on their own because they account for nearly a third of all ddos calls to f5 ’ s sirt. figure 7 : percentage of total application - targeted ddos att…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
48%
", and these “ things ” are now the cyber weapon of choice for attackers because they are easy to compromise, they are plentiful, and they often reside in unmanaged networks where there is little chance of malware detection and remediation. attackers know this and are building bot…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
47%
"by f5 soc by industry, q2 2018 ddos attack count by type the number one ddos attack type in 2018 has been udp fragmentation attacks, followed by udp flood, which was the number one attack type for the prior two years. as noted in our q1 trend report, we expect to continue seeing …"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
46%
"##ac, as well. 2 following apac was north america, which received the lowest number of attacks in a quarter over the past two and a half years. in q1, we speculated that ddos attack targets would start leveling out globally versus north america always receiving the lion ’ s share…"
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
44%
"organizations seek help fighting app - focused ddos attacks even as total ddos attack rates stay flat f5 labs continually tracks ddos trends based on data from various sources. among the most important are the f5 security operations center ( soc ), the front line for mitigating d…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
41%
"learn from youtube videos how to create botnets and launch attacks that interrupt service. and they don ’ t have to be large, volumetric attacks ; they can be small, multi - vector attacks that cause sustained application performance impact. ( it ’ s also worth mentioning that th…"
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
39%
"targeted ddos attacks are a small percentage of total attacks launched, customers are clearly struggling to mitigate these attacks on their own because they account for nearly a third of all ddos calls to f5 ’ s sirt. figure 7 : percentage of total application - targeted ddos att…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
36%
"gbps attack ). speaking of children, in june, protonmail was under attack by a “ youth ” group that goes by the name of apophis squad. the group of young adults claimed they learned from youtube videos how to build the botnet they used for the attack. figure 1 : apophis squad cla…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
33%
"as the other attack categories. figure 6 : ddos attacks mitigated by f5 soc by category, q1 and q2 2018 special attention should be paid towards the emergence of application - targeted ddos attacks. application attacks are more precise and require traffic scrubbing versus the typ…"
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
33%
"##ac, as well. 2 following apac was north america, which received the lowest number of attacks in a quarter over the past two and a half years. in q1, we speculated that ddos attack targets would start leveling out globally versus north america always receiving the lion ’ s share…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
32%
"gbps attack ). speaking of children, in june, protonmail was under attack by a “ youth ” group that goes by the name of apophis squad. the group of young adults claimed they learned from youtube videos how to build the botnet they used for the attack. figure 1 : apophis squad cla…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
31%
", and these “ things ” are now the cyber weapon of choice for attackers because they are easy to compromise, they are plentiful, and they often reside in unmanaged networks where there is little chance of malware detection and remediation. attackers know this and are building bot…"

Summary

While DDoS attack rates hold, tensions rise for organizations trying to mitigate app-targeted attack that can be easily launched by script kiddies.