Security company Arbor Networks recorded a new maximum price in DDoS attacks. This time the highest price reached 579 Gbps in 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 for the first half of the year. The report shows that despite the increase in the peak prices of DDoS attacks, their average price is at 986 Mbps, which could be very easily diverted by a company that uses 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 do not use sophisticated attack enhancement techniques, but LizardStresser's modified botnets, a simple toolcase ανοιχτού κώδικα που δημιουργήθηκε από τους hackers της teams Lizard Squad.
