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Kaspersky reveals decrease in DDoS attacks
carried out . At the same time , China continued to lose ground in terms of the total number of DDoS attacks ( 10.2 %). The US remains the leader ( 36 %) in this category for the second quarter in a row , while Poland and Brazil are new entries in the top five .
Alexey Kiselev , Business Development Manager on the Kaspersky DDoS Protection team , said : “ The second quarter of 2021 was calm , as we expected . There was a slight decrease in the total number of attacks compared to the previous quarter , which is typical for this period and is observed annually .
Kaspersky has revealed a decrease in the number of DDoS attacks .
In the second quarter of 2021 , the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by
38.8 % compared to Q2 2020 , and by 6.5 % in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021 .
China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks were
“ We traditionally associate these numbers with the beginning of holidays and vacations . In the third quarter of 2021 , we also do not see any prerequisites for a sharp rise or fall in the DDoS attack market .”
“ The market will also continue to be highly dependent on the rate of cryptocurrencies , which has remained consistently high for a long time .”
Report reveals blocked DDoS attack volumes up more than 40 % year on year
Radware , a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions , has announced results from its Q2 2021 DDoS Attack Report .
The report revealed that second quarter blocked DDoS attack volumes were up more than 40 % compared to the same period in 2020 . The report provides an overview of DDoS attack trends by industry , as well as across applications and attack types .
The report revealed during the first half of 2021 , a company located in the Americas or Europe , the Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ) had to repel , on average , twice as much volume compared to a company located in Asia-Pacific ( APAC ).
The Americas and EMEA accounted for about 80 % of the blocked attack volume during that same period .
“ While large ransomware attacks are capturing headlines , there are other cyberthreats that companies need to pay attention to ,” said Pascal Geenens , Director of Threat Intelligence for Radware .
“ From an increase in DDoS extortion campaigns and DDoS hit-andrun assaults , to a hacktivist group targeting financial organizations in the Middle East , the second quarter saw a concerning amount of cyber activity compared to the activity levels we saw during the same quarter last year . The results of this report should serve as a strong reminder to enterprises that no company is immune from being a target .”
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