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DDoS attacks rose by a third in Q3 2019: Kaspersky
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Nov, 2019
In the third quarter of 2019, the number of Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) attacks rose by a third compared to the previous quarter
and Q3 2018, shows data from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
This
growth was primarily due to a spike in malicious activity in September.
In fact, 53 per cent of the quarter's DDoS attacks were carried out in
that month, said the study.
The rise is caused by a large number
of rather simple types of attack. Nonetheless, in previous quarters of
this year, the total growth stemmed from a surge in the number of smart
attacks, focusing on the application layer -- usually carried out by
skilled cybercriminals.
In Q3 2019, the share of smart attacks
dropped to 28 per cent of all DDoS attacks, from 50 per cent in Q2, and
grew by only seven percentage points in the Q3 2018 results.
"We
have not seen an explosive increase in the number of smart attacks
compared with the previous quarter and the average length of attack
remains the same. However, this still causes serious damage to
business," said Alexey Kiselev, Business Development Manager on the
Kaspersky DDoS Protection team.
"Our survey of IT decision makers
revealed that DDoS attacks are the second most expensive type of cyber
incidents that led to data breaches for SMBs (small and medium-sized
businesses), with the average cost of a breach estimated at $138,000,"
Kiselev said.
DDoS attacks take advantage of the specific
capacity limits that apply to any network resources, such as the
infrastructure that enables a company's website.
The DDoS attack
will send multiple requests to the attacked web resource with the aim
of exceeding the website's capacity to handle multiple requests and
prevent it from functioning correctly.
To prevent DDoS attacks,
organisations need to ensure that web and IT resources can handle high
traffic and implement professional solutions, Kaspersky said.
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