First, the bad - adversaries continued to innovate and alter strategies aimed at taking down DDoS protections with direct-path DDoS attacks and high-powered server-class botnets. Meanwhile, a little good news came in the way of a decrease in some reflection/amplification vectors, floating overall DDoS attack number down. Despite this decrease, the bad news tells us we must remain vigilant to combat ever-changing attacker methodologies and tactics.

The regular update to this threat intelligence series. Focuses on changes in attacker behaviors in the first half of 2021, with particular focus on DDOS activity, ransomware actions, supply chain attacks, and COVID-19 related patterns.

Netscout’s regular threat intelligence report. Focusing on the trends seen in denial of service (DOS) attacks across the Netscout control ecosystem.