{"id":181692,"date":"2016-10-06T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181692"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:32:40","slug":"ddos-attacks-used-as-smokescreens-for-other-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181692-ddos-attacks-used-as-smokescreens-for-other-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"DDoS attacks used as smokescreens for other attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neustar has published its <a href=\"https:\/\/hello.neustar.biz\/2016_2h_ddos_report_security_lp.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks &amp; Protection Report<\/strong><\/a>, which focusses\u00a0on DDoS attack and protection trends.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that DDoS attack volumes have remained high and these attacks cause real damage to organisations.<\/p>\n<p>DDoS attacks are also being used as smokescreens in concert with other malicious activities &#8211; such as viruses and ransomware &#8211; that result in additional compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Neustar collected responses from over 1,000 information security professionals to determine how DDoS attacks are impacting companies and how they are mitigating the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Findings from the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DDoS Attacks Are Unrelenting and Show No Sign of Abating:<\/strong>\u00a073% of organisations suffered a DDoS attack. 85%\u00a0were attacked more than once and 44% were attacked more than five times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DDoS Attacks Are Only the Tip of the Spear:<\/strong>\u00a053% of organisations that suffered a DDoS attack also experienced some form of additional compromise. 46%\u00a0discovered a virus, malware was activated at 37%, and ransomware was encountered at 15%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DDoS Attacks Are Time-Consuming and Expensive:<\/strong>\u00a071% of organisations took an hour or more to detect a DDoS attack and 72% took an additional hour or more to respond to the attack. 49% of\u00a0organisations would lose $100,000 or more per hour of downtime during the attacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Investment in DDoS Protection Shows Promise:<\/strong>\u00a076% of organisations are investing more in DDoS protection. 53% are using traditional firewalls, 47% are using a cloud service provider, and 36% are using an on-premise DDoS appliance combined with a DDoS mitigation service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DDoS attacks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180880-first-ever-1tbps-ddos-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>First ever 1Tbps DDoS attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168065-biggest-ddos-attack-in-q1-2016-was-289gbps.html\"><strong>Biggest DDoS attack in Q1 2016 was 289Gbps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/156537-googles-project-shield-protecting-news-sites-against-ddos-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s Project Shield: protecting news sites against DDoS attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DDoS attacks are used as smokescreens to hide other malicious activities, according to a new report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,2242],"class_list":["post-181692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-ddos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181708,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181692\/revisions\/181708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}