The first six months of 2020 underlined the fact that the consequences of DDoS attacks are no longer solely limited to companies that are attacked. Our timeline highlights incidents where the damage was particularly severe.

Link11 is cautioning hosting providers to beware of a new wave of DDoS blackmail attacks by the Armada Collective. As recently as mid-August, attackers using the name Fancy Bear used DDoS attacks to put pressure on operators of critical infrastructure and financial services.

Fancy Bear extortion emails demand Bitcoin transfers and threaten lengthy, high-volume attacks over 2,000 Gbps, with critical infrastructure providers targeted most

Attacks in April, May and June 2020 more than double compared with Q2 2019, and attacks using public cloud infrastructure increase

The first reflection amplification vectors occurred in 2013 and involved DNS and NTP. Since then, the spectrum of vectors has become far greater. Currently, there are over 20 techniques.

Average bandwidth of attacks increasing and share of multivector attacks rose to 64%.

DDoS flooding attacks against big name brands have made media headlines for more than two decades. However, many bot attacks aren’t flooding attacks at all. These attacks pose a huge threat to organizations and website owners… but few are aware of the risks.

In 2019, we could clearly see that various countries, as well as organizations across different industries and of all sizes, were hit by DDoS attacks. Attackers managed to find a way to take down the IT systems of organizations that were not vigilant enough. This infographic provides a quick summary of some of the most notable DDoS attacks that occurred over the past 12 months.

Report reveals a rising number of multivector and cloud computing attacks over the last twelve months. There was also a number of new amplification vectors like WS–Discovery, Apple Remote Management Service and an increase in ‘carpet bombing’ attacks.

The experts from the Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) take a look back at the most important DDoS attacks in 2019 and summarize which new developments could be detected on the attacker side. In addition, the IT security specialists draw conclusions for the threat situation in the coming 12 months.