DDoS attacks increase 84 percent in three months

The number of DDoS attacks during the first quarter of 2019 increased by 84 percent compared with the previous quarter according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. This reverses last year's trend of declining DDoS attacks as attackers shifted their attention to other sources of income, such as crypto-mining. As well as increasing in number attacks are also getting longer. The number of DDoS attacks that lasted for more than an hour doubled in quantity, and their average length increased by 487 percent. These statistics confirm Kaspersky Lab experts’ hypothesis that hackers are evolving their techniques and are now… [Continue Reading]