Arelion has announced the findings of a new DDoS Threat Landscape Report, with a unique perspective on key global DDoS trends observed in 2022 from traffic data on its number one ranked Internet backbone, AS1299.
The report investigates the overall impact of DDoS attacks, the evolution of specific attack vectors and the significance of major social and geopolitical events. The findings reveal that Europe saw the greatest concentration of DDoS activity in 2022, most likely a consequence of the war in Ukraine.
As with previous years, DDoS attacks appear to reflect major geo-political challenges and social tensions and have become an increasingly significant part of the hybrid warfare arsenal.
As the Ukrainian authorities sought a safe harbour for digital state registries and databases, Arelion saw the distribution of attacks move away from active conflict areas into global cloud centres – both as a result of damage to local network infrastructure but also as local databases and applications were strategically migrated into the cloud.
Conversely, in the rest of the world, Arelion observed lower Asia-US DDoS activity and fewer DDoS attacks to and from South America in 2022.
In 2022, peak attack traffic in Mega Packets Per Second (Mpps) was up 19% from 2021. This trend reflects overall Internet traffic growth but is also due to a continuing shift towards fewer but more spectacular attacks.
