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   DDoS attacks in 2025 have already surpassed the 2024 total   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks are all the rage these days.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   In the first quarter of 2025, there were as many Distributed Denial of    
   Service ( DDoS ) attacks as there were through the entire 2024.    
      
   This is according to Cloudflares new Q1 2025 DDoS Threat Report, published   
   earlier this week. Based on data from the Cloudflare network, the report   
   claims that in the first three months of 2025, there were 20.5 million DDoS   
   attacks, almost the same as in all 12 months of 2024 which had 21.3 million   
   such incidents.    
      
   This also represents a stunning 358% year-on-year increase, as well as a 198%   
   quarter-on-quarter increase.    
      
   Targeting Germany    
      
   A Distributed Denial of Service attack works by flooding the target server   
   with information packages from a vast, distributed network. If the server   
   cannot process all of the requests on time, it bogs down, denying regular   
   visitors proper access. There are different types of DDoS attacks, with   
   hyper-volumetric ones now being the new normal.    
      
   A hyper-volumetric DDoS attack is a massive cyberattack that floods a network   
   or website with an extremely large volume of fake traffic, often measured in   
   terabits per second. These require a huge network of devices, which is why in   
   the past they werent as common. However, in Q1, roughly 700 attacks were   
   deemed hyper-volumetric as they exceeded rates of 1 billion packets per    
   second (pps) or 1Tbps - averaging about 8 attacks a day.    
      
   At the same time, network-layer DDoS attacks (which target the lower levels    
   of the internet stack, like routers and firewalls , by flooding them with   
   traffic such as ICMP or UDP packets) are getting more popular. There were    
   16.8 million such attacks, representing a staggering 509% YoY increase and a   
   397% quarter-over-quarter increase.    
      
   Germany is the number-one most targeted country in the world, followed by   
   Turkey, who jumped 11 spots to reach second place. China slipped to third. As   
   for the location of the attackers, Hong Kong is the number one source,   
   followed by Indonesia and Argentina.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/ddos-attacks-in-2025-have-already-surpa   
   ssed-the-2024-total   
      
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