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DDoS Attacks on the Rise

Europol's "Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2019" report outlines how DDoS attacks are among the biggest threats reported in the business world. The favorite DDoS targets of criminals in 2019 were banks and other financial institutions, along with public organizations such as police departments and local governments. Travel agents, Internet infrastructure, and online gaming services were also in the cybercriminals' crosshairs. Some arrests were made, but they had no noticeable impact on the growth rate of DDoS attacks or on the Dark Web infrastructure that makes them possible, according to Europol.

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While many DDoS attacks go unreported and unnoticed, some are making the news. In October, a major DDoS attack roughly eight hours long struck Amazon Web Services (AWS), making it impossible for users to connect because AWS miscategorized their legitimate customer queries as malicious. Google Cloud Platform experienced a range of problems at about the same time, but the company says the incident was unrelated to DDoS. A few weeks earlier, a number of DDoS attacks crippled an ISP in South Africa for an entire day.

Everybody Is Vulnerable

Interestingly, it's not just legitimate organizations that are plagued with DDoS attacks. Anyone familiar with Dark Web market listing service will know that markets are usually listed with an "uptime," with the main reason for any downtime being DDoS attacks.

These hidden services are open to DDoS attacks because of certain characteristics of the Tor browser, which is commonly used to access the Dark Web. Earlier this year, the three biggest Dark Web markets all suffered serious and extended DDoS attacks. The operators of Dream Market were reportedly taken for $400,000, which illustrates that even the criminals are vulnerable to attacks by DDoS extortionists.
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