DDoS attacks increase more than 500 percent over last year

The second quarter of 2020 has seen a massive 570 percent increase in 'bit-and-piece' DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to the latest threat report from Nexusguard. Bit-and-piece attacks target ASN-level communication service provider (CSP) networks by dispersing small pieces of junk traffic across a diverse pool of IP addresses across hundreds of IP prefixes. ASNs (Autonomous System Numbers) are routable IP prefixes belonging to a particular organization, targeting them in this way causes significant challenges for CSPs and for typical threshold-based detection, which is unreliable for pinpointing the specific attacks to apply the correct mitigation.… [Continue Reading]