NSFOCUS research team finds more than 68 percent of victims suffered multiple attacks; Media more focused on hacktivism than business crime - the true enterprise threat
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NSFOCUS, Inc. (NSFOCUS), a global provider of solutions and services for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) detection and mitigation, today released its NSFOCUS Mid-year DDoS Threat Report 2013. The report details attack trends over the past half-year based on 168,459 incidents observed by the company's Security Research Academy, an in-house team of anti-DDoS analysts. The report also analyzes 90 major media reports on initiatives launched by hacker groups such as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters and Anonymous, among others, focusing on the Operation Ababil and Spamhaus campaigns. Highlights of the findings include:
"Profit-driven cybercriminals pay close attention to 'hackernomics,' deploying whatever form of attack causes the most damage with minimal effort," said Frank Ip, vice president of U.S. operations for NSFOCUS. "For this reason, we expect application-layer attacks to remain the most common method of attack in the near term, and we anticipate a greater adoption of this method in the future."
The NSFOCUS Mid-year DDoS Threat Report 2013 reveals that DDoS attacks are seeing more time in the media spotlight with a heavy focus on incidents related hacktivism, such as the biggest cyber attack in history against anti-spam organizations Spamhaus. However, attacks driven by commercial competition and malicious ransom comprise a majority of all DDoS attacks. There is a clear divide between groups that utilize DDoS attacks as a form of hacktivism and groups that use them to make profit.
To obtain your copy of the report, visit http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2013/SecurityReport_0906/143.html