Across-the-board increase in DDoS attacks of all sizes - Help Net Security

Across-the-board increase in DDoS attacks of all sizes - Help Net Security

There has been a 168% increase in DDoS attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018, according to Neustar.



The company saw DDoS attacks across all size categories increase in 2019, with attacks sized 5 Gbps and below seeing the largest growth. These small-scale attacks made up more than three quarters of all attacks the company mitigated on behalf of its customers in 2019.


DDoS attacks increase, take varied forms


In 2019, the largest mitigated threat, at 587 gigabits per second (Gbps), was 31% larger than the largest attack of 2018, while the maximum attack intensity observed in 2019, 343 million packets per second (Mpps), was 252% higher than that of the most intense attack seen in 2018.


However, despite these higher peaks, the average attack size (12 Gbps) and intensity (3 Mpps) ..

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