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According to StormWall’s DDoS Attacks Report, DDoS attacks globally rose by 102% in the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2023.

In the MENA region, the financial sector has become the top target for cyberattacks, making up 38% of all incidents and seeing a 268% increase compared to last year. Cybercriminals are increasingly focusing on high-value targets for financial gain, while hacktivism is on the decline, a StormWall report says.

Research by cybersecurity company StormWall has found that DDoS attacks in the Asia-Pacific region increased by 174% in the second quarter of 2024 on a year-over-year basis, with South Korea emerging as the top target country.

StormWall‘s latest Q2 2024 DDoS Attacks Report before releasing it to the public. The report found that in the first quarter of 2024, China, the U.S., and China only accounted for about 23.8% of all global DDoS traffic.

More than one in five (21 per cent) of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region were targeted at the UAE in the first quarter of this year, research shows.

In Asia Pacific, a report from StormWall showed that DDoS attacks in 2023 experienced a 38% surge in the region, year-over-year.

Research by cybersecurity company StormWall has found that DDoS attacks in the Asia-Pacific region increased by 174% in the second quarter of 2024 on a year-over-year basis, with South Korea emerging as the top target country.

Research by cybersecurity company StormWall has found that DDoS attacks in the Asia-Pacific region increased by 174% in the second quarter of 2024 on a year-over-year basis, with South Korea emerging as the top target country.

StormWall has significantly revamped its client portal. Now, customers can monitor their DDoS security in real-time.

StormWall, a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023.

StormWall projects a 170% increase in DDoS Attacks by the end of 2023 and urges businesses to implement mitigation strategies.

A report from cybersecurity experts StormWall found the number of DDoS attacks used as a smokescreen in January 2023 rose by 28% globally compared to the same period of the previous year.

StormWall has significantly revamped its client portal. Now, customers can monitor their DDoS security in real-time.

According to customer telemetry from StormWall, the number of DDoS attacks used as a smokescreen had increased by 28% globally in January 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.

– Overall, there was a 74% YoY increase in the number of DDoS attacks in 2022.

– The growth rate began slowing in the fourth quarter, and by December, attacks had decreased by 53%.

– The power of botnets surged in the year, powering over 2 Tbit/s attacks that stretched up to 3 days.

– Criminals targeted the fintech industry more than others. It suffered 34% of the incidents. There’s also been a 12-fold increase of attacks on financial services.

– Hacktivists contributed to the increase in the strength and duration of attacks, developing tools for politically motivated actions that were eventually adopted by for-profit criminals.

The DDoS threat is like Covid. It’s not going anywhere, but we can learn to live alongside it. Like vaccines and booster shots, there are tools that protect against it. And like masks and social distancing, there are steps we can take to stay safe.

StormWall, a cybersecurity service that specializes in providing DDoS protection for IT infrastructures of all sizes and complexity, including websites, networks and online services, today announced the opening of its sixth point of presence in Singapore, in partnership with IDCloudHost. The new location will operate in the Equinix SG3 data center, providing robust protection against DDoS attacks for customers in the Asia Pacific region.

As 2022 draws to a close, Ramil Khantimirov, CEO and co-founder StormWall, shared his views on the global trends affecting DDoS attacks, the motivations of hackers today and the main threats relating to DDoS attacks.

DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent and powerful. To understand the threat orgnaizations may be facing in the near future, StormWall experts analyzed the past frequency of attacks on the company’s clients. The research concluded that we may be looking at a 130% increase in the number of DDoS attacks globally.

A new report has warned that as more cybercriminals learn the potential of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the popularity of such tactics are growing exponentially.

Experts believe that hackers employ both conventional public tools, originally designed for testing purposes, and specially developed, new utilities that they distribute as open source software. The newly developed tools are updated weekly and most of the updates increase their effectiveness. Since the software is free, it only requires computing resources to operate, which, in most cases, the attackers already have access to.

For metaverses, protectability will be critical because in large digital spaces the economy of scale is very noticeable. But for operators of modern gaming sites and social media, the trade-off between benefits and costs is also important, so their security must be given due attention.

StormWall expects a 130% increase in DDoS worldwide. The new wave of DDoS is forecasted to hit in September 2022 and will be targeted at multiple sectors, although businesses will be affected the most.

At the start of school year in September this year in many cities around the world, educational institutions appeared to have experienced an increase in DDoS attacks that was around 118% greater than that in 2020.

Online retail is traditionally one of the most attacked industries, and during the preparation for school, the number of attacks on online stores increases significantly. With the help of cyberattacks, online retailers are trying to harm their competitors and cripple their websites.

Some of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever detected have been revealed by cybersecurity company StormWall. This specific botnet, which enabled DDoS attacks of up to 2TB/s, sets a new record over the entire life of the internet as we know it so far.

Research made by Boston Consulting Group suggests that companies in the financial market are 300 times more likely to be targeted by DDoS than companies operating in other industries. DDoS then is a real and pressing threat for banks. But why are DDoS attacks in this industry that much more prevalent?

The developer of information security solutions StormWall releases the StormWall Sensor Appliance, which provides effective protection of business from DDoS attacks of any level. The solution will be available to all StormWall customers who use the Network Protection service from September 1, 2021.

The migration to remote-working has resulted in a surge in online threats. What are the most effective protection measures?

Smart factories, smart sensors, and the Internet of Things are blurring the line between digital and physical worlds — making cyberattacks more dangerous than ever.

As our analysis showed, the intensity of DDoS attacks, in general, continues to grow. So, in Q1 2021, we recorded 25.4% more attacks on our customers than in the fourth quarter of 2020. The leaders in the number of attacks were e-commerce, construction, entertainment, telecommunications, as well as the financial sector.

Your smartphone chimes as you step outside your front door on the way to work, notifying you of an incoming delivery. You put on smart-glasses and look up at buzzing drones. One detaches from the swarm and descends. It’s carrying your monthly razor subscription kit. An icon pops in your peripheral vision — you’ve been charged $10. Delivery received, a text below says. A security camera recognizes you in the yard and calls for your car. The garage door opens. The car drives itself upfront to pick you up.

Beneath all those containers and IoT devices, there’s a rich patchwork of gear, protocols, and guidelines that have been holding it together since before you were born. Knowledge of those fundamentals is growing more valuable, not less.

According to experts from StormWall, the global quantity of DDoS attacks may increase by at least 20% compared to last year, based on these further observations:

DDoS attacks have shown steady growth for several years in a row.
The emergence of a large number of cybercriminals targeting students transitioning to distance learning.

The Coronavirus crisis led to sharp increase in demand for all kinds of Internet services for consumers and a massive transition to remote work in the corporate sector. On the other side it also led to significant growth in the number and intensity of DDoS attacks. Ramil Khantimirov, CEO and co-founder of StormWall, talks about the risks of one of their varieties – DDoS attacks on networks and how to protect against them.

According to Stormwall experts, in 2021 the global quantity of DDoS attacks on companies’ online resources will increase by at least 20% compared to last year. DDoS attacks have shown steady growth for several years in a row, and will increase even more in 2021 due to a number of new factors.

In the final part of the series of articles looking at DDoS protection, Ramil Khantimirov examines how an organisation should approach setting up DDoS defences.

The next article in our series on DDoS protection technologies looks further at the different types of protection that can be acquired and exactly how companies can be shielded from such attacks.

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According to StormWall IT security experts, DDoS attacks against telecom companies are on the rise. The surge of such attacks was first detected in early 2021, during the New Year holidays.

DDoS attack challenges for Telecom companies and how to get effective protection against anonymous DDoS attack.

DDoS protection is a never-ending battle with cybercriminals; hackers try to bring your website down, while you strive to operate with zero downtime. To win this battle, you must choose the right technologies within your network, but also implement the right solution for your requirements.

Do you remember when last time you were watching a movie or browsing your favorite e-commerce site and the thing suddenly stopped loading? And that page refresh indicator at the top-right of the screen just kept endlessly spinning, yet, you had the perfect 5 bars of connection?

Experts discovered that during the pandemic, between February and October 2020, the number of DDoS attacks targeted at online retail services quadrupled compared to the same period last year.

Ramil Khantimirov, the co-founder of StormWall has presented his Information Sustainability project for the MBA Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 award and was included in the shortlist of finalists. StormWall provides cybersecurity-as-a-service and introduces a concept of Information Sustainability: an idea that present-day society is dependent on the uninterrupted availability of information.

365Retail talks to Ramil Khantimirov, CEO and co-founder of StormWall to discuss the dangers of cyber attacks and how you can protect your e-commerce website.

StormWall experts analyzed DDoS attacks targeting multiple European online markets in 2020. The analysis revealed that the Entertainment sector.

How do you ensure stable uptime in the face of the new massive wave of cyber-attacks, sponsored by competitors, or initiated by hacker groups to blackmail your business?

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on schools and higher institutions are reaching their all-time high, as DDoS tools become cheaper and more accessible than ever. What does it mean for online education?