Microsoft says that it witnessed distributed denial-of-service attacks turn shorter in duration in 2022 while also becoming more effective and capable of greater impact. As per Microsoft’s DDoS trends report for 2022, the United States, India, and East Asia topped the targeted regions for DDoS attacks, among others, and internet of things devices remained the preferred choice for launching these attacks. DDoS attacks in 2022 lasted less than an hour on average, and attacks lasting 1 or 2 minutes accounted for one-fourth of total attacks last year.
According to the tech giant, the attacks were shorter because bad actors required fewer resources to carry them out, and security teams are finding it difficult to defend against them using legacy DDoS controls. “Attackers frequently use multiple short attacks over the course of several hours to make the most impact while using the fewest resources,” Microsoft says.
The daily average was 1,435 DDoS attacks, with the highest number being 2,215 on September 22. During the holiday season, the volume of DDoS attacks increased significantly until the last week of December.
In Azure Aloud, Microsoft documented a 3.25 terabyte-per-second attack as the “largest attack” in 2022. This is less than the previous largest known DDoS attack, which had an intensity of 3.47 TB per second at its peak.
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