DDoS attacks rise as companies fail to address DNS security
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have scaled up in the past year, according to Arbor Networks' latest Infrastructure Security Report (PDF), and many attackers are learning from each other to meet their objectives.
Those surveyed in the study, around 220 operational security professionals, reported that DDoS attacks are the number one threat against their infrastructure.
Attackers are thought to be ideological hacktivists, mostly targeting the customers of those hosting infrastructure, but the report states that attacks against infrastructure providers themselves are increasing. "Last year, we saw eight times the number of attacks over 20Gbps when compared to 2012. In short, attackers seem to have refocused on utilising large volumetric attacks to achieve their goals," report co-author and Arbor Networks solutions architect Darren Anstee said.
