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Hacktivists Step Up Web Attack Volumes
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(BBC) – Compiled by Arbor Networks, the report looks at 10 years of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The ease with which they could be staged had made them a favourite for groups with a grudge, said Arbor.
Also, it said, insecure home routers were being enrolled into large groups of devices that mounted the attacks.
In the early days of DDoS, cybercrime gangs had used them to extort cash from websites run by betting and gambling firms that could not afford to be knocked offline, said Darren Anstee, a senior analyst at Arbor.
