Report: DDoS Attacks Becoming 'Precision-Guided Weapons'
Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks saw an “unprecedented escalation” in the first half of the year, with more than 8 million recorded, NetScout said in a report released Wednesday. The attacks are becoming “precision-guided weapons of geopolitical influence, capable of destabilizing critical…
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infrastructure at the most crucial moments,” the report said. The India-Pakistan conflict saw groups “target the Indian government and financial sectors in May, while the Iran-Israel conflict generated more than 15,000 attacks against Iran and 279 against Israel in June.”