DDoS Attacks Soar 53% To 21.3 Million, Cloudflare Reports

Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, including a record-breaking 5.6 terabit-per-second strike that targeted an Asian internet service provider last October. The yearly total marked a 53% increase from 2023.

The 80-second October attack, which originated from over 13,000 compromised Internet of Things devices running Mirai malware variant, highlighted an alarming trend: hyper-volumetric attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second grew by 1,885% in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter. Ransom DDoS attacks, where criminals threatened organizations with service disruptions unless paid, rose 78% in the same period.

When the first AI backtrace tools come online...

[zurkeyon]

There are going to be some people in some very serious trouble, on the hook for trillions in losses. Hope they know the phrase "There is always somebody better" ;-)

Need new laws

[Hoi Polloi]

Providers who have a significant number of compromised systems in their IP blocks should be threatened with being blocked unless they block those IPs.

Re:

[Tablizer]

The new administration should focus on laws punishing sloppy IOT companies instead of renaming geography and harassing transgenders.

MICROS~1 Windows strikes again :o

[Mirnotoriety]

DDoS attacks soar fifty three percent to twenty one million. The primary cause being all those compromised Microsoft Windows desktops out there on the Internet.