Ukraine’s national postal service website Ukrposhta was hit by DDoS attacks for two days. The facility mentioned that it was able to start the service after the first day attack. On the second day, the service was slowed down by the attack.
Igal Zeifman Imperva director of marketing said that its not unusual to see such repeat attacks. “Recently, such tactics had become more common due to their ability to disrupt some security measures and cause fatigue to the people in charge of the attack mitigation, forcing them to stay alert even in the quiet time between attacks,” he said.
“In the first quarter of the year, we saw the number of such repeat assaults reach an all-time high, with over 74 percent of DDoS targets attacked at last twice in the span of that quarter,” Zeifman added.
Ukposhta was attacked earlier by hackers. In the late June it was impacted by NotPetya attacks.
As per Kaspersky Lab Q2 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report this quarter saw a 277-hour DDoS attack and 131 percent longer than the longest DDoS attack in Q1 2017.
It also mentioned that DDoS attacks hit 86 countries, up from 72 countries in Q1 2017. The most affected countries were China, South Korea, the U.S., Hong Kong, the U.K., Russia, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and France.
Kaspersky also said that there is an increase in Ransom DDoS or RDos attacks
“Nowadays, it’s not just experienced teams of hi-tech cybercriminals that can be Ransom DDoS attackers,” Kaspersky Lab head of DDoS protection Kirill Ilganaev said in a statement. “Any fraudster who doesn’t even have the technical knowledge or skill to organize a full-scale DDoS attack can purchase a demonstrative attack for the purpose of extortion.”
“These people are mostly picking unsavvy companies that don’t protect their resources from DDoS in any way and therefore can be easily convinced to pay ransom with a simple demonstration,” Ilganaev added.
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