The number of global DDoS attacks in the last three years has increased by nearly 500%. The U.S. saw a 16,815% increase in this period.
- The rise in the number of DDoS attacks is being credited mainly to Russian hacker groups such as Killnet.
- Killnet is a Russia-based hacker group that is believed to have been formed after the start of the war in Ukraine in March 2022.
- The threat actor is responsible for launching hacking campaigns against targets in the U.S., Germany, Japan, Hungary, Italy, etc.
- DDoS attacks have increasingly become not only more common but also more powerful.
- Peak DDoS alert traffic in a single day reached as high as 436 petabits and more than 75 trillion packets.
- On
Feb. 23, 2023, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched
against a Prolexic customer based in Asia-Pacific. The attack peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second.
- These statistics come from a report that covers 93 countries and over 50% of the world’s internet traffic.
