DDoS attackers turn fire on ISPs and gaming servers

DDoS attackers seem to have switched their attention from banks to gaming hosts, ISPs and even enterprises, half-year figures from Chinese mitigation vendor NSFOCUS have confirmed.

The firm’s recent statistics show that the peak for DDoS attacks on banks happened in the first half of 2013 when they accounted for an extraordinary 45 percent of all attacks, with enterprises second in the target list at around 25 percent.

By the second half of last year, this had started to change with bank attacks slipping under 10 percent – this has since dropped to fractions of a percent. If banks are now off the menu, online gaming and ISPs are suddenly popular, rising in the first half of 2014 to 10 percent and nearly 15 percent of attacks respectively.

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