Η company security Arbor Networks recorded a new peak in DDoS attacks. This time the peak value reached 579 Gbps during the first half of the year.
The previous maximum was 500 Gbps, and was detected at the end of 2015.
The company released today its report on the landscape of attacks DDoS για το πρώτο εξάμηνο του έτους. Η report shows that despite the increase in DDoS attack peak rates, their average rate is at 986 Mbps, which could be very easily deflected by a company using DDoS attack mitigation infrastructure.
Arbor reports that 80 percent of all DDoS attacks detected during the first six months of the year were small or medium-sized, and only 46 attacks hit speeds above 200 Gbps. 274 attacks have hit 100 Gbps.
Arbor reports that in most cases, fraudsters are not using complex attack amplification techniques, but modified botnets of LizardStresser, a simple open source toolkit created by hackers of the Lizard Squad.
