Cybercrime is a business that shares the same goals as an enterprise —increase return on investment (ROI). Cybercriminals are constantly evolving and shaping their business models to more effectively track the success rates of their attack techniques in order to best measure the success of their campaigns.
In response to the recent Akamai report that came out, Dave Larson, CTO at Corero Network Security, says: “There is an interesting point to note which is the increase in number of attacks with a corresponding drop in mean peak bandwidth. This correlates quite closely with the transition Corero has been noticing, where DDoS is being used more frequently as a masking agent or security perimeter degradation tool. The big attacks are still occurring – but the increase in lower level attacks of the type we have been highlighting would create this trend in the Akamai data.
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