The number of recorded DDoS attacks has increased 16 percent since last year. Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 State of the Internet/Security: Web Attack report was released. The report also highlights that Mirai is not dead as attacks with new variants are still ongoing. The hospitality industry is the target of the most credential abuse attacks, with Russia and China fingered for most. Nearly 40 percent of the bot traffic targeting travel sites was classified as impersonators of browsers a known vector for fraud was also classified as ‘other'”]