DDoS attacks almost doubled in year: Akamai State of the Internet Security Report

There were nearly double the number of DDoS attacks this year and half of those used multi-vector attacks. Each DDoS attack lasted 28% longer, according to Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Research Team (PLXsert) The gaming industry was the most-attacked industry, followed by software and tech industries. The United States was the worst offender and Russia was the best when it comes to the ‘whodunnit’ department. US was named as the top source country responsible for DDoS traffic, 31.54%, China was next with 17.61%.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2878418/ddos-attacks-almost-doubled-in-year-akamai-state-of-the-internet-security-report.html