DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them
Summary: Cisco Talos reports that DDoS attacks have resurged, citing a June 25 attack on Diablo IV that also affected other Blizzard games and Microsoft's confirmation that Layer 7 DDoS attacks caused June outages in Azure, Outlook and OneDrive, which Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for. Talos attributes the rise to the low skill required, pointing to Dark Utilities' Layer 4 and Layer 7 DDoS tooling available to paying customers, and to increased funding behind attacks, prompting CISA to release an advisory last week.
Why it matters: Any actor with a base level of networking knowledge can launch a DDoS attack, and tooling like Dark Utilities sells that capability to anyone willing to pay, while the economic damage is hard to measure in the way ransomware losses are.
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