DDoS-attacks had become more powerful over the year in 4 times

During this year the power of DDoS-attacks increased in 4 times, according to the new annual report to Q3 2014 State of the Internet from the company Akamai. This company publishes quarterly reports on global trends in the internet. Over the past few months since the beginning of the year it had to protect their customers from attacks, including 17 parts which exceeded 100 gigabits / s, and the most serious reached 321 gigabits / s.

"The size and the power of DDoS-attacks this year has exceeded all possible limits," – says John Summers, vice president of security at Akamai. He added that in the 3rd quarter of last year there was not a single attack more than 100 gigabits / s, whereas in the 3rd quarter of this year was 6 pieces.

In total, the number of DDoS-attacks this year has increased by 22% and their capacity increased by 366%, more than in four times, if we compare two similar blocks in this and last year.

Even compared to last Q2 output of DDoS-attacks , it has increased very significantly, by 80%. At that attackers use more advanced technology. In particular, 53% of the applied multi-vector attacks. Akamai Experts attribute to the greater availability of programs with a simple interface through which launched DDoS. Thus, this activity may be engaged by bigger amount of  people. The situation is exacerbated by the increase in the number of commercial orders for such attacks. In addition, the presence of an unfavorable situation creates considerable number of vulnerable devices, including smart phones, cable and DSL-modems, tablets and other gadgets, participating in DDoS-attacks.

Source: xaker.ru