Russia suffered record number of DDoS attacks last year: report

Russia’s private businesses and state services faced a record number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks last year, fueled by pro-Ukrainian hackers, according to a report published this week by Russia’s largest telecom provider Rostelecom.

At the beginning of the war, DDoS attacks against Russia were massive and unsophisticated, according to cybersecurity experts. But throughout 2022 they became more destructive and targeted, Rostelecom said, with its experts identifying at least 21.5 million critical web attacks.

Rostelecom researchers analyzed DDoS attacks between …

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