The second half of 2021 marked a shift in dedicated denial of service attacks: A reduction in overall numbers, but a shift toward smarter and higher-volume attacks, according to Netscout’s new Threat Intelligence Report.
Netscout, analyzing data from its Active Level Threat Analysis System (ATLAS) and insights from its ATLAS security engineering and response team, said that cybercriminals launched approximately 4.4 million DDoS attacks in the second half of last year, for a total of about 9.75 million attacks during the course of 2021.
