DDoS Attack Volume Consistently High, Neustar Says
The volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has remained consistently high, and such attacks are causing “real damage” to companies, Neustar said Tuesday in a report from surveying more than 1,000 cybersecurity professionals. It said DDoS attacks are…
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frequently being used as a “smokescreen” for hackers to launch other malware against a company’s servers. Fifty-three percent of DDoS were accompanied by other malware, with 46 percent of such cases involving viruses, 15 percent involving ransomware and 37 percent involving other forms of malware. The risk of IoT-based DDoS attacks is increasing as more unsecured IoT-enabled devices go on the market. Eighty-two percent of professionals who have adopted IoT have experienced an attack, while 58 percent who haven’t adopted such technologies were attacked. “Organizations should be concerned that DDoS attacks are growing increasingly sophisticated and relentless, frequently serving as the first stage of a multi-stage attack against an organization’s infrastructure,” said Neustar Senior Technologist Rodney Joffe in a news release: “There is a silver lining: as public attention is driving urgency to improve DDoS protection capabilities, organizations are increasingly realizing that having a DDoS mitigation solution in place is a requirement” to prevent such attacks.