According to the report, “the main targets of the attackers were financial organizations, the public sector, as well as the sphere of online commerce. The number of DDoS attacks on data centers and gaming, which were the focus of hackers a year ago, has decreased”.
The largest number of attacks occurred in Moscow, their share was 60% of the total number of incidents, the shares of other regions did not exceed 7%.
The company added that the number of DDoS attacks on banks increased by 3.5 times, almost 90% of them occurred in September.
The number of DDoS attacks in the online trading segment increased by 20%. The number of DDoS attacks on the public sector also doubled in August and September compared to the same period in 2020.
“Every year, the power and complexity of DDoS attacks increases. This is due to the active use of larger-scale botnets by hackers. They consist of a variety of devices, and more and more vulnerabilities are used to hack them,” said Timur Ibragimov, head of the Anti-DDoS and WAF platform of Solar MSS cybersecurity services at Rostelecom-Solar.
According to him, in particular, in September, the attackers organized the largest DDoS attack using the Meris botnet, the estimated scale of which is 200 thousand devices. “Such attacks are already directed at well-protected organizations and companies whose resources can only be disabled by a very powerful DDoS. For example, it can be banks, large industrial or energy enterprises, etc.,” he added.
It is worth noting that, according to Atlas VPN, the number of DDoS attacks worldwide in the first half of the year increased by 11%, reaching 5.4 million. Thus, the number of attacks in the first half of the year turned out to be a record.
