DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
Apr 16, 2024Omer Yoachimik, Jorge Pacheco
Summary
This post details the Q1 2024 DDoS threat landscape, highlighting a 50% year-over-year increase in mitigated attacks to 4.5 million. It notes an 80% YoY surge in DNS-based DDoS attacks, which now constitute 54% of network-layer attacks. The report also discusses the emergence of HTTP/2 Continuation Flood as a new, potentially severe attack vector, detailing its technical mechanism and impact, while confirming Cloudflare's network is not affected. It also mentions the continued prevalence of Mirai-variant botnets and the growth of Jenkins Flood attacks.
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