{"id":85155,"date":"2025-06-24T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecommerceupdate.org\/?p=85155"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:20:15","slug":"ataques-ddos-com-menos-de-5-minutos-aumentam-quase-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecommerceupdate.com.br\/en_ca\/ataques-ddos-com-menos-de-5-minutos-aumentam-quase-40\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS attacks less than 5 minutes up nearly 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks remain one of the most recurrent and sophisticated threats in the cybersecurity universe Global DDoS Landscape<\/em><\/a>, from NSFOCUS, last year to this day, there has been a significant increase in both the frequency and complexity of attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The material gathers the information obtained from a deep study on the cybersecurity market, based on global traffic trends and the company's customer base, and raised three points that caught the attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth of ultra-short and massive attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The called lightning attacks<\/strong> (burst attacks), which last less than 5 minutes, grew by 36.5%. Although brief, they generated extremely high traffic spikes, making detection difficult and requiring automated responses in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiplication of attack vectors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacks multivectorial<\/strong> (multi-vector attacks), which combine different types of techniques such as UDP flooding, TCP and application layer attacks (Layer 7) 2 represented more than 55% of cases. This shows a clear intention to overload different points of the network infrastructure and application simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth of attacks against applications and APIs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The application layer and programming interfaces (APIs) have become preferred targets. This is due to their criticality in digital services and the difficulty of distinguishing legitimate traffic from malicious traffic at this level.In many cases, advanced bots simulate human behavior to circumvent traditional mitigation mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this time, the great challenge for cybersecurity teams is to adapt old models that no longer work. According to Raphael Tedesco, business director of NSFOCUS, most organizations still rely on point solutions, such as traditional firewalls or load balancers, ineffective against distributed, multivectoral and application-layer attacks. \u201cIn addition, the exclusive dependence on local solutions (on-premises) limits the responsiveness against large-scale\u201d attacks, he points out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies that have not experienced recent incidents tend to underestimate the sophistication of attackers and the speed with which new criminal tools are made available as a service, as in the DDoS-as-a-Service model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given this scenario, it is essential that companies have an approach proactive, distributed and intelligent<\/strong> for DDoS defense. Some recommendations include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n