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F5 Labs

How Cyber Attacks Changed During the Pandemic

2020-10-06 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

8 predictions
T1498Network Denial of Service
84%
"1 it ' s highly unlikely that the real fancy bear is carrying out these recent campaigns. shift in ddos attack types in 2020 overall, most of the reported ddos attacks are volumetric, targeting network bandwidth and saturating it with junk packets to clog up the connections for l…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
80%
"basis. the first d in ddos means distributed and refers to the fact that ddos attacks are sourced around the world from large botnets of compromised machines. in previous years, we saw a “ spring slump ” in ddos attacks, but this year we witnessed a big rise from april onward, wi…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
66%
"shows reported attacks for the january through august time period for the past three years. what were these f5 sirt - reported incidents? the phrase reported security incidents refers to an aggregate measure of several kinds of attacks in which customers sought help from the f5 s…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
44%
"basis. the first d in ddos means distributed and refers to the fact that ddos attacks are sourced around the world from large botnets of compromised machines. in previous years, we saw a “ spring slump ” in ddos attacks, but this year we witnessed a big rise from april onward, wi…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
42%
"1 it ' s highly unlikely that the real fancy bear is carrying out these recent campaigns. shift in ddos attack types in 2020 overall, most of the reported ddos attacks are volumetric, targeting network bandwidth and saturating it with junk packets to clog up the connections for l…"
T1498.001Direct Network Flood
39%
"shows reported attacks for the january through august time period for the past three years. what were these f5 sirt - reported incidents? the phrase reported security incidents refers to an aggregate measure of several kinds of attacks in which customers sought help from the f5 s…"
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
36%
"basis. the first d in ddos means distributed and refers to the fact that ddos attacks are sourced around the world from large botnets of compromised machines. in previous years, we saw a “ spring slump ” in ddos attacks, but this year we witnessed a big rise from april onward, wi…"
T1498Network Denial of Service
33%
"against customer dns servers. the first half of 2020 also saw a rise in ddos attacks targeting websites and applications. in 2019, 4. 2 % of the ddos attacks reported to the f5 sirt were identified as targeting web apps. however, this increased sixfold in 2020 to 26 %. the f5 sir…"

Summary

Cybersecurity attacks surged during the pandemic, with large jumps in DDoS and password login attacks against online retailers and APIs.