Of all DDoS attacks we tracked DDoS trend last year, the longest attack, captured in the fourth quarter, was active for 177 hours and 53 minutes.
Meanwhile, perpetrators are also inclined more towards the deployment of multivector attacks.
In fact, blending multivector approaches into APT attacks are being used as a cover to engage into something more evil and lethal.
To be more, precise, more than 76 % of attacks tracked last year targeted more than one vector.
NTP-based Attacks Soared Fourfold Last Year
Among many different types of volumetric attacks, NTP-based attacks, a subtype of UDP-based floods, witnessed a fourfold escalation as compared to the previous year, according to our research findings.