Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security company, has just released a report titled “DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021.” According to Cloudflare, 2021 has been a particularly bad year in terms of DDoS attacks. Ransom distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased by over 175 percent quarter over quarter, highlighting the large scale of the problem described by Cloudflare. The numbers certainly prove a point: In the fourth quarter of 2021, ransom DDoS attacks increased by 29% year over year and 175% quarter over quarter. The majority of the attacks originated from China, although the fourth quarter saw a rise in attacks from Moldova. Cloudflare stated that it aims to make it easy and free for organizations of all sizes to stay protected against all kinds of DDoS attacks.

Source: The Nation January 13, 2022 20:07 UTC