Hyper-Volumetric DDoS Strikes Record Levels

 Cloudflare's Q2 DDoS report reveals an alarming surge in hyper-volumetric attacks that exceeding 1Tbps or 1 Bpps with a record shattering peak of 7.3 Tbps and 4.8 billion pps floods just in seconds. Despite the total number of DDoS attempts dropping from 20.5 million in Q1 to 7.3 million Q2, these massive assaults have become 71 per day on average, which is a staggering rise in both volume and intensity. Specifically, HTTP based DDoS attacks increased by 9% to 4.1 million, while Layer 3/4 attacks declined by 81%, that implies attackers are shifting toward application layer techniques. These threats mostly targeting telecom providers, internet services, gaming platforms and critical infrastructure. Alarmingly, random driven DDoS extortion incidents jumped 68% with attackers demanding payment to prevent the attacks. A new botnet variant called DemonBot is actively recruiting vulnerable IoT devices via default credentials or open ports that enabling more intense UDP, TCP and application layer strikes. The rise of hyper-volumetric floods, ransoms and stealthier botnets underscores the need of always-on, real-time DDos defenses that includes large capacity scrubbing and proactive threat intelligence. Since DDos landscape is evolving rapidly from brute force to financial extortion organizations must strengthen their resilience with automated DDoS protection, global mitigation networks and proactive threat feeds. 

 

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