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Ransom DDoS could be the next big threat

posted onAugust 20, 2021
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Ransom extortion under threat of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a lot easier to pull off than a full-blown ransomware assault, which is why this model of cybercrime is rapidly increasing in popularity.

US telecoms company Lumen Technologies recently published its quarterly distributed denial of service (DDoS) report for Q2 2021, which encourages businesses to prepare to combat a new wave of RDDoS attacks.

This type of attack is growing in destructive power, as well as in sheer volume, the company warns. Regular DDoS attacks are also growing in number and destructive power. Compared to Q1 2021, there were 14% more attacks mitigated in Q2, with the largest attack by bandwidth coming in at 419 Gbps.

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