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While distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been around since the late 1990s, they have picked up in volume and intensity over the past year. what is distributed denial of service ? The largest DDoS on record hit the Internet at the end of March. A pair of studies released this week from Arbor Networks and Akamai Technologies further reinforces the notion that DDoS is a growing threat, depending on how you interpret the data. DDoS Getting Bigger According to Arbor, at the end of the first quarter of 2013 the average size of DDoS attacks was 1.77 Gbps, which is a 19.5 percent increase over the same period in 2012. Larger attacks are also growing, with DDoS incidents delivering packet floods in the 2 to 10 Gbps range now representing 21.5 percent of all attacks, up from 15 percent a year ago. While DDoS attack size is rising, Arbor reports that 62.4 percent of attacks are still less than 1 Gbps. Considering that many large enterprises and data centers have Internet ...

DDoS attacks are evolving. Not only are more attacks being launched than ever, but innovative criminals are also finding new ways to incorporate emerging technologies for higher-volume attacks. Innovation is driven by the proliferation of IoT devices and financially motivated threat actors. what is ddos mean ? The DDoS-as-a-service industry operates much like legitimate platform businesses in the tech industry. Sophisticated malware authors create user-friendly DDoS tools and sell monthly subscriptions. For as little as $19.99 per month, hacker customers can gain access to a user-friendly DDoS tool which can include chat technical support. While the trend originated on the dark web, criminal entrepreneurs have gotten gutsier about marketing their services. One individual who wentby the name “Gwapo” even advertised DDoS services on YouTube. In the past year, DDoS has trended towards larger-scale attacks. 2018 saw the highest-frequency attack yet; the first terabyte-per-second-sc...