DDoS attacks rose by 28% in Q2 2017 compared with the first quarter of the year, content delivery and cloud service provider Akamai Technologies has reported. The company said that it had seen a rise in traffic from cybercriminals who were using botnets to launch distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks. The average number of attacks per target increased to 32, though one gaming site suffered 558 attacks. The research analysed 233,000 servers in 130 countries and focused on Mirai and Pbot malware. The current trend is for smaller, more frequent attacks, rather than the larger attacks logged late in 2016, the research noted.
DDoS attacks rose by 28% in Q2 2017 compared with the first quarter of the year, content delivery and cloud service provider Akamai Technologies has reported. Gaming sites are the most likely to be targeted, representing 81% of all volumetric DDoS attacks that the company logged. The average number of attacks per target increased to 32, though one gaming site suffered 558 attacks. The research analysed 233,000 servers in 130 countries and focused on Mirai and Pbot malware. The current trend is for smaller, more frequent attacks, rather than the larger attacks logged late in 2016, the research noted.