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Organizations in Today’s Digital Landscape

By Tony King, SVP International at NETSCOUT

In today’s world, where the digital landscape is rapidly evolving, the cyber threat level is continuing to
grow. Cybercriminals are constantly refining their attack techniques, developing increasingly complex
and sophisticated cyberattacks.

Our findings reinforce this, with approximately 7.9 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
taking place in the first half of 2023, representing a 31 percent increase year-over-year. This equates to
roughly 44 thousand DDoS attacks per day worldwide. In terms of attack methodologies, there was a
near 500 per cent growth in HTTP/S application-layer attacks, as well as 17 percent increase in DNS
reflection/amplification attacks from the second half of 2022 to the first six months of 2023.

As cybercriminals continue getting better at launching increasingly dangerous attacks and bypassing
traditional defense systems more effectively than ever before, it is imperative for organizations to
implement robust cybersecurity systems.

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