Megafon specialists to protect against DDOS attacks spoke about the new strategy of hackers / incidents of Krasnoyarsk and Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.ru

Megafon specialists to protect against DDOS attacks recorded changes in the conduct of attacks by hackers. Despite a decrease in almost one and a half times the number of fixed cases in the first half of the year relative to the same period last year, their speed and capacity increased markedly.

The operator analysts compared the statistics of DDOS attacks on customers for the first six months of the current year and the same period last year. Despite the increase in the number of customers who use the protection of Megafon, by 13 %, the number of incidents decreased by 45 %, as well as their duration: on average, the attack lasts one hour 45 minutes, which is 18 %less. The longest attack of this half -year is almost three days, a year earlier – a little more than five days.

Hackers reduced the time of aggression, but increased other parameters: the average capacity of the capacity (GBPS) increased by 18 %, while the record of last year repeated this – 710 GBPS.

Speed indicators increased significantly. If earlier attackers tried to carry out slow attacks to make them similar to a regular stream of traffic, now they were betting on speed: the average indicator increased by 39 %, and the most powerful attack on MegaFon customers doubled and amounted to 72,220 KPPS.

Attackers are less and less likely to show interest in the banking sector, but attacks on it are still regular. At the same time, the number of cases in relation to the telecom does not grow. Stable in the focus of hackers there are also companies from the public sector, and the content of the content providers: online cinemas, video platforms, musical and streaming services are increasingly faced with threats. Earlier, companies often applied for the service already during the DDOS attack, which complicated the defense settings and slowed down the reaction speed, now such cases have been reduced by more than five times.

“Attackers use different types of combinations of attack parameters, trying to influence effectiveness. Based on the reaction of our protection systems, hackers adapt their strategies. The more and more diverse traffic, the more difficult it is to filter it. But Anti-DDOS analyzes the behavior of each request to distinguish legitimate from malicious. The fact that in the current half of the year we record a large share of attacks that exceed the indicators of past years is associated with several factors: increasing the traffic and speed of Internet consumption by users in general, more availability of botnets and the efficiency of loading between them, as well as sending various requests that make servers to respond with large data volumes, ”said the Director of the Development of the Megapon Corporate Business Business. Natalia Taldykina.

Earlier, Megafon conducted a study by the Cybersecurity Index on the use of protection services by companies. As the experience of more than 400 Russian companies showed, DDOS attacks are the most common threats that business faces, they account for 42 %. In addition, the survey revealed that in parallel with the attack, hackers hack and infect the resources of companies. As a result, 42 % of companies suffered losses of up to a million rubles, and the remaining 58 % – over a million. If earlier the main targets were large financial organizations and critical infrastructure facilities, today a business of any scale can be under threat-from a small online store to a large holding. Therefore, ensuring the protection of digital assets has ceased to be the privilege of large market players and became a necessity that reduces the risks of financial and reputation losses.