Tuesday, April 26, 2016

“Kaspersky Lab” analyzed the DDoS-attacks beginning in 2016 – PC Week / RE

«Kaspersky Lab” analyzed the major trends DDoS-attacks in the first quarter of 2016 and found that their duration is reduced, and the frequency and complexity grows. So, about 70% of attacks last period lasted no more than four hours, and the longest attack lasted 8 days, while in the last quarter of 2015 – almost two weeks. At the same time it increased the maximum number of attacks on one resource: this quarter there were 33, and last – 24.

In the first quarter of Russia remained in the top five countries whose resources are most often subjected to attacks using botnets. In addition, the list includes Ukraine – previously it was not as popular target of DDoS-attacks. The total number of attacked countries has increased from 69 to 74, and the vast majority of attacks, as well as at the end of last year, had only 10 countries – the leaders on this indicator are China, South Korea and the United States.

Easy-to-implement and cost of attack, for example, aimed at plugging a communication channel, gradually giving way to more sophisticated and targeted, such as the attacks on the application. A common example of attacks on applications are trying to bring down the sites under the control of WordPress, which attackers often exploit technology Pingback. It allows you to notify the author of the web post that someone refers to its content on the Internet. Enabling this feature on a WordPress resource management leads to the fact that all the links in the materials published on this website send requests to the sites-originals. Overloading a huge number of requests leads to a malfunction of the original site.

Nevertheless, attacks against the communication channel blockage, still remain valid. Despite the fact that their number has declined compared with last year, rose four times their maximum power – this measure, cybercriminals are taking to overcome the protection of the Internet providers and cybersecurity solutions.

«Today, virtually all telecommunications companies have learned to reflect the most common and are usually simple in terms of the implementation of the types of DDoS-attacks. As a result, cyber criminals are increasing computing resources and are beginning to turn to more complex and expensive, but effective way. A good example – the attack on the application. Calculate it in the flow of these applications users can only use a reliable security solution with intelligent filtering algorithm “garbage” requests, which will help to make the attack financially unprofitable for criminals. Companies, especially those that are available for the business of online services is a key requirement, can no longer rely solely on the ability of Internet service provider “, – said Alexey Kiselev, Project Manager Kaspersky DDoS Prevention« Kaspersky Lab ».

When choosing a means of protection against DDoS-attacks to better focus on service providers, well-proven in the information security market. For example, Kaspersky DDoS Prevention service combines the best practices of companies in the field of protection against online threats and technological solutions to protect the attacked resource in any territory, regardless of the complexity, power or duration of DDoS-attacks.

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