Botnet proliferation is growing at an alarming rate. In 1H 2022 alone, NETSCOUT’s global honeypot network observed more than 67 million connections from 608,000 unique IP addresses, spanning 13,000 autonomous system numbers (ASNs), 30,000 organizations, and 165 countries. Direct-path attacks are becoming a tool of choice for adversaries – a fact further established by an 11% increase in direct-path attacks from 2H 2021 to 1H 2022. This growth is due largely to innovation in the botnet landscape. The continuous move to direct-path attacks sourced from botnets translated to more application-layer attacks, a trend on the rise since early last year.
To read this article in full, please click here
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
