DDoS Attacks in 2022
The year 2022 was marked by significant changes in many areas of cybersecurity. Amid the turmoil, there was a noticeable shift in distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS ) attacks targeting and adversarial behavior. Perhaps the most significant lesson learned from last year is that DDoS attackers are targeting everything online , sometimes all at once . Two prominent themes emerged in 2022 — the ...
DNS 2% Others 3% In 2022 , 78% of DDoS attacks targeted the application layer of the OSI model, 17% hit the network and transport layers, and 3% targeted DNS. HTTP floods, once too expensive to run, are now dominating the threat landscape. In 2021's third quarter, 80% of attacks were packet flooding, targeting transport and application layers.
DDoS Attacks Report for 2022
In 2022 , the main DDoS blow fell on the financial industry, with almost a third of all attacks (34%) targeting this vertical. This sector also saw the sharpest growth, with attacks up 12 times year-over-year.
The DDoS attack landscape remains challenging. While organizations continue to explore new defense methods to protect against DDoS attacks proactively, attackers never stop creating sly and novel tactics to take down the target services easily.
DDoS Threat Intelligence Report
DDoS attacks nearly reached a plateau of 13 million for 2022—a new high water mark for attack frequency—all while adversaries become more adept at evading defense and traditional DDoS mitigation.
In this blog, Microsoft shares trends and insights into DDoS attacks we observed and mitigated throughout 2022 .
Cloudflare DDoS threat report for 2022 Q4
In Q4, Cloudflare mitigated millions of DDoS attacks . Attack durations increase, volumetric attacks surged, and ransom DDoS attacks persist. Travel & events industries were hit hardest and over 90% of traffic to Chinese Internet properties were L3/4 DDoS attacks . Read more on our recent report.
DDoS Attack Targets Became More Specific and Attacks Were More Persistent Year over Year The analysis on the attacked frequency of targets reveals that the number of repeatedly attacked IP addresses in 2022 was significantly greater than that in 2021. DDoS attacks against a single target became increasingly persistent. 56.91% of victims experienced only one DDoS attack in 2021, whereas victims ...
DDoS Attack Trends in 2022
The number of DDoS attacks on media portals increased by a record-breaking 76 times (51,842 incidents compared to 670 in 2021). Government-related websites were also constantly under attack , with the number of incidents increased by 55 times (20,766 compared to 370).
Application and Network layer DDoS attack trends