{"id":8625,"date":"2021-08-05T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:20:25","slug":"kaspersky-reveals-decrease-in-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2021\/08\/05\/kaspersky-reveals-decrease-in-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky reveals decrease in DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kaspersky has revealed a decrease in the number of DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second quarter of 2021, the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8% compared to Q2 2020, and by 6.5% in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> were carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, China continued to lose ground in terms of the total number of DDoS attacks (10.2%). The US remains the leader (36%) in this category for the second quarter in a row, while Poland and Brazil are new entries in the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexey Kiselev, Business Development Manager on the Kaspersky DDoS Protection team, said: \u201cThe second quarter of 2021 was calm, as we expected. There was a slight decrease in the total number of attacks compared to the previous quarter, which is typical for this period and is observed annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe traditionally associate these numbers with the beginning of holidays and vacations. In the third quarter of 2021, we also do not see any prerequisites for a sharp rise or fall in the DDoS attack market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe market will also continue to be highly dependent on the rate of cryptocurrencies, which has remained consistently high for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> SSH brute force attacks are often achieved by an attacker trying a common username and password across thousands of servers until they find a match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky has revealed a decrease in the number of DDoS attacks. In the second quarter of 2021, the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8% compared to Q2 2020, and by 6.5% in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021. China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks[1] were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3488,511,34,514],"tags":[1661,573,1606,849,149],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-more-news","category-used","tag-brazil","tag-china","tag-ddos","tag-kaspersky","tag-us"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}