DDoS threat report for 2024 Q2
Jul 9, 2024Omer Yoachimik, Jorge Pacheco
Summary
This post details Cloudflare's DDoS threat landscape analysis for Q2 2024, observing a 20% year-over-year increase in DDoS attacks and a significant rise in threat actor sophistication, necessitating a tenfold increase in automated mitigation fingerprints. It also highlights the rise in Ransom DDoS attacks and provides detailed statistics on attacked countries, industries, and attack sources, along with an analysis of network-layer and HTTP DDoS attack vectors.
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