The attacks of the dispersed service outperform many traditional electronic threats and are no longer just a tool but rather a “dominant political geopolitical weapon”, according to Netscout.
The global DDOS activity increased by 12.7 % in the second half of 2024 compared to the first half, as the total attacks of approximately 9 million attacks, According to The company.
The DDOS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the regular web traffic of a server, service or network targeted through the target or infrastructure surrounding it with a flood of traffic on the Internet.
The largest increases in Latin America and the Asia and Pacific regions were, with an increase of about 30 % and 20 % of the first half, respectively.
Netscout stated that there is a total of 7.9 million DDOS attacks in the first half of 2024, with a total of 16.8 million for the full year, an increase of approximately 30 % of 13 million company attacks. Record In 2023.
The researchers said that the attackers use the Internet disable tool “to exploit moments of national weakness to inflate chaos and erode confidence in institutions.”
The report described the DDOS attacks as “accurate digital weapons” capable of disrupting infrastructure at critical moments, highlighting how they were published during political and political conflicts, elections, protests, and political conflicts.
DDOS Weekly Statistics, 2024. Source: Netscout
Artificial Intelligence is the super -charging DDOS attacks
They added that the DDOS-For-Hire services, including exhaustion and pressure, are “more powerful than ever”, as cyber criminals benefit from artificial intelligence and automation to bypass CAPTCHA, with automation “progress towards capabilities such as imitation of behavior and attack modifications in actual time.”
The researchers concluded that the DDOS attacks “no longer revolve around the raw frequency range,” adding that they are “adaptive, continuous and deeply guaranteed in modern electronic and geographical conflicts.”
“The shift to the infrastructure of the high -energy institutions, the survey of the key, the rise of improved automation of artificial intelligence and the expansion of DDOS services for rental means that the attackers develop faster than ever.”
The role of DDOS attacks is the development, chief technology official in Corero Ashley Stephenson He said Forbes recently, adding, “By automating the tasks that were day -to -day employment or required specialized skills, artificial intelligence reduces the entry barrier to the attackers.”
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The DDOS attack targeted the Elon Musk social media platform in August, with the aim of disrupting his interview with the pulmonary candidate at the time Donald Trump.
X was targeted again in March when the huge electronic attack prevented some users from reaching the platform.
The ties group with Russia called the “Dark Storm” claimed responsibility for the DDOS attack on the Musk platform, claiming it was not of political motives.
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