Hacktivism and DDOS Attacks Rise Dramatically in 2022

Aug 21, 2022 12:00 pm Cyber Security 116

2022 has brought a surge in distributed denial-of-service attacks as well as a dramatic rise in patriotic hacktivism. What’s ahead for these trends as the year continues?

August 21, 2022 •

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According to the first half of the 2022 H1 Global Threat Analysis Report released by Radware this past week, cyber attacks have grown and evolved as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here are two of the main findings:

DDoS attacks rise dramatically – The first six months of 2022 were marked by a significant increase in DDoS activity across the globe. Attacks ranged from cases of hacktivism to terabit attacks in Asia and the United States.

The number of malicious DDoS attacks climbed 203% compared to the first six months of 2021.

There were 60% more malicious DDoS events during the first six months of 2022 than during the entire year of 2021.

In May 2022, Radware mitigated a volumetric carpet-bombing attack, which represented a total volume of 2.9 PB. The attack lasted 36 hours, peaking at 1.5 Tbps with a sustained attack rate of more than 700 Gbps for more than eight hours. The combination of duration, volume, and average/sustained attack rates makes this one of the most significant DDoS attacks on record.

Patriotic hacktivism surges – During the first half of 2022, patriotic hacktivism increased dramatically.

Both established and newly formed pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian cyber legions aimed to disrupt and create chaos by stealing and leaking informatio ..

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