Attackers are harnessing the power of the internet, leveraging the proliferation of devices in the ever-expanding internet of things (IoT) to launch terabit-per-second–scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to NETSCOUT’s 2018 Threat Intelligence Report.
DDoS attackers represent a wide range of actors with various motivations. While some are malware authors, others are opportunistic criminals taking advantage of affordable services for hire. “They are a busy group, constantly developing new technologies and enabling new services while utilizing known vulnerabilities, pre-existing botnets and well-understood attack techniques,” the report wrote.
By Kacy Zurkus
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