Europe's cybersecurity agency has warned that geopolitics is fueling a current increase in denial-of-service attacks.
ENISA analyzed 310 publicly reported DoS attacks between January 2022 and August 2023, to compile its ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks report.
It claimed that two-thirds were motivated by political reasons or activist agendas, with half down to the war in Ukraine.
That suggests DDoS mitigation measures still have some way to go.
Google said its exploitation enabled malicious actors to launch a series of DDoS attacks that reached a peak of 398 million requests per second.
This Cyber News was published on www.infosecurity-magazine.com. Publication date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:00:21 +0000