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“Similarly, L3/4 DDoS attacks also increased by 14%, it added.

Cloud computing service provider Fastly also said it blocked an attack counting 250 million rps.

DDoS attack

“This allowed them to launch hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks with a small botnet ranging 5-20 thousand nodes alone.”

“Almost 47% of all attacks were DNS-based.

This represents a 44% increase compared to the previous quarter.

SYN floods remain in second place, followed by RST floods, UDP floods, and Mirai attacks.”

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