The financial segment suffered the most from DDoS attacks
Qrator Labs, which specializes in ensuring the availability of Internet resources and neutralizing DDoS attacks, shared interesting statistics based on the results of the third quarter of 2023.
As in the previous period, the financial segment suffered the most from DDoS attacks – 42.06% of the total number of all attacks.
Record-breaking DDoS attack recorded in 2023 – lasting almost three days
The maximum duration of attacks showed the first record this year. At the end of August, an attack occurred on the transport and logistics segment (airports) and became the longest continuous attack this year, lasting almost three days. It even surpassed last year’s fourth quarter, where the longest attack lasted nearly 70 hours. The press service said:
At the end of August, an attack on the transport and logistics segment (airports) occurred and became the longest continuous attack this year, lasting almost three days (71 hours and 58 minutes). It is important to note that this was a complex, multi-vector attack – UDP+SYN+TCP, which had signs of a commercial (custom) attack.
The total number of blocked IP addresses compared to the second quarter increased by 116.42%, from 18.5 million to 40.15 million. At the same time, in the third quarter, the number of application-level attacks continued to decline. This time the figure fell by another 26.67% compared to the second quarter of this year.
