Kaspersky Lab has released a report on botnet-assisted DDoS attacks for the third quarter of 2016. The number of resources attacked in Western Europe and the number of sophisticated attacks emanating from encrypted traffic has also grown. The percentage of attacks by Linux-based DDoS bots also continued to grow, reaching 79 per cent a record for the last year. The most active day for botnet attacks registered over the last four quarters was 3 August, with many of them targeting a single service provider located in the US.”]
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