Russia entered the top five most DDoS-attacked countries in the world in 2022. According to StormWall, Russia accounted for 8.4% of all DDoS attacks in the world. Most of them were destined for the financial and telecommunications sectors.
By 2022, Russia has become one of the leaders in terms of the number of DDoS attacks received, said analysts at StormWall, a developer of cybersecurity solutions. In total, 1.2 million DDoS attacks were carried out in Russia in 2022.
Russia accounted for 8.4% of all global DDoS attacks; experts have recorded such a high rate for the first time. In the list of the countries most attacked by DDoS, Russia ranked fourth; the traditional leaders were China and India.
Most attacks were committed against the financial sector (28%, 18x growth year-on-year), telecommunications (14%, 12x growth), public sector (14%, 25x growth), retail (12%, 12x growth times) 8 times).
The duration of DDoS attacks committed in 2022 has doubled: if in 2021 they lasted an average of four hours, in 2022 the attacks took eight hours.
Previously, analysts predicted an increase in the number of DDoS attacks of 300% by spring 2023. Hackers will use more sophisticated tools, as well as attacks on web applications.
Author:
Kirill Bilyk
Source: RB
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