DDoS attacks against Russian firms have almost tripled in 2021
A report analyzing data from the start of the year concludes that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Russian companies have increased 2.5 times compared to the same period last year.
A DDoS attack is when an attacker floods a service or network bandwidth with more requests than it can handle, causing the service to suffer an outage.
Threat actors are increasingly deploying huge swarms of DDoS-backing devices (botnets) to launch crippling attacks against targets on a wide range of industries and sectors.
DDoS attacks are commonly used to extort victims with ransom demands or as a distraction for IT teams while hackers attempt to steal precious data from compromised systems.
Another reason for launching these attacks against an organization is to disrupt their business, degrade the quality of their services, and lead their clients to competitor platforms.
In a report from Rostelecom, the largest telecommunications provider in Russia, September 2021 was recorded as the worst period for DDoS attacks again Russia in recent history.
