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According to Qrator Labs, the longest TCP amplification attack lasted about 11.5 hours with a peak of 208 million packets per second. Experts believe that the attacks targeted online casinos. Knowing the low prospects of investigations, the affected hosters did not report the incident to the police. However, as Artem Gavrichenkov noted, when Google is the injured party, the location of the attackers is quickly identified down to the unit in the server rack. And what happens next depends on the actions of law enforcement agencies.

The average duration of DDoS attacks, according to Qrator Labs, has been decreasing in the past year as the increased availability of tools to carry them out has increased the number of hackers who lack the resources to escalate attacks if initial attempts are repelled.

Against the backdrop of a one and a half-fold increase in the ghana whatsapp data of DDoS attacks, Qrator Labs noted a 20% increase in the average size of botnets used in such attacks, which experts link to the increase in the number of vulnerable smartphones and Internet of Things devices.

is the rise of IoT devices. Last year, researchers discovered a backdoor in the firmware of motherboards of DVRs made by Chinese white-label company Xiongmai. Its DVRs are sold worldwide under several dozen brands. Given the computing power of devices like DVRs and their often direct access to the Internet, we should expect DDoS attacks that are much more powerful than those launched in 2016 using botnets built on CCTV cameras and causing considerable harm to those attacked.