Neustar highlights rise in ransom-related DDoS attacks and greater use of existing attack vectors
Summary
The report also provides key details around the amount, size, duration and intensity of DDoS attacks throughout 2020 to keep cyber security professionals informed. While RDDoS is not a new phenomenon for many online industries, attackers have recently set their sights on organisations across a wider variety of sectors including financial services, government and telecommunications. “Acting as the Internet’s address book and backbone of today’s digital services, it’s unsurprising that DNS is an increasingly appealing target for malicious actors, particularly as more consumers turn to websites during peak online shopping periods,” said Rodney Joffe, Senior Vice President and Fellow, Neustar. Recent NISC survey data supports this trend, with three in five respondents in a December 2020 study reporting they had fallen victim to a DNS attack in the last year. Neustar offers industry-leading solutions in Marketing, Risk, Communications and Security that responsibly connect data on people, devices and locations, continuously corroborated through billions of transactions.