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In the first half of December, StormWall specialists recorded a flood of DDoS attacks with a capacity of more than 1 Tbit/s, which lasted for several days. Essentially, the hackers attacked companies from the entertainment industry, online retail, publishers and the fintech sector, especially crypto services.

Transportation and logistics is a sensitive area of the economy that, for a variety of reasons, attracts increased attention from cybercriminals. The consequences of a DDoS attack can impact far beyond the enterprise itself, disrupting the workflow of thousands of other companies.

Content creator Rockstar Games still relies on peer-to-peer networks for gaming lobbies. This allows attackers to influence gameplay, disable lobbies whenever they want, and block individual gamers.

The DDoS attack resulted in voice outages across the United States. The assault continued for several days. The company's stock has halved in value since hitting a 52-week high of nearly $200.

DDoS attacks in Europe have become a serious headache for many companies. Over the past 10 years, the average DDoS traffic has grown by more than 1000%.

On September 5, 2021, the Yandex search engine and the most visited website in the Russian-language segment of the Internet, yandex.ru, suffered a massive DDoS attack. It was so powerful that the company's representatives called it the largest in the history of the Internet.

It is worth noting the increasing number of incidents involving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in New Zealand. Representatives of the National Center for Cybersecurity GCSB are increasingly forced to comment on emerging cyber threats.