Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) continues to track Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks around the world, and last week the company released a report that details the DDoS statistics and trends for the first quarter of 2022. A DDoS attack is defined as “a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.”
“Our first-quarter data shows just how important it is for businesses to maintain solid cyber defense strategies. Anyone can be the target of a large attack at any time,” said Beth Kohler, senior director of Security Product Management for Lumen.
After a relatively quiet fourth quarter, the number of DDoS attacks that Lumen scrubbed in Q1 increased by 66 percent.
Key findings of the report include:
- The number of DDoS attacks that Lumen scrubbed in Q1 2022 increased by 66 percent compared to Q4 2021, and by 32 percent compared to Q1 2021.
- Of the 500 largest attacks in Q1, 97 percent targeted the Telecommunications, Gaming, Software and Technology, Hosting, and Government verticals.
- Lumen protected one organization from more than 1,300 DDoS attacks – more than 20 percent of the total number of attacks scrubbed during the entire quarter.
- The same organization accounted for the largest bandwidth attack that has ever passed through Lumen’s scrubbing centers at 775 Gbps.
“Our first-quarter data shows just how important it is for businesses to maintain solid cyber defense strategies,” said Kohler. “Anyone can be the target of a large attack at any time. Even a few minutes of downtime can cause serious damage to a company’s operations, revenue and reputation. Because the highly targeted customer uses Lumen’s Always-On DDoS Mitigation Service with Rapid Threat Defense, many attacks are blocked before they can do any damage. We can only imagine the harm these criminals could have caused to our customer (and their customers) had these attacks succeeded.”
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