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The number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks decreased sharply in the Q3 of 2020, according to Kaspersky.

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Football fever is on like never before, so does the interest of cybercriminal. In the past, cybercriminals have used people’s interest in the sport to launch cyberattacks.

Attacks on the scale of Dyn and Github are rare – however, much smaller, more calculated, attacks are experienced by thousands of enterprises on a daily basis and these can have just as a significant impact for the target, says Sean Newman, Corero Network Security.

As more businesses come online in India and with the rising importance of data that businesses manage, it’s imperative that they secure themselves against attacks of varying kinds like DDoS attack of memcached amplification type, says Akamai.

Recently, Github was hit by one of the largest DDoS attack ever recorded in history. The DDoS attack lasted only for nine minutes, but the servers were flooded with data volumes reaching almost 2Tbps.