During the Black Friday period, covering November 24-26, 2023, the number of DDoS attacks on Russian retail stores increased by 18% compared to the same October dates. socialbites.ca was informed about this by the press service of StormWall, a company specializing in information security.
Experts also found that the majority of attacks during the sale period targeted online equipment stores (34% of the total number of attacks in retail), clothing and shoes (22%), household goods (18%) and online pharmacies (14%), florists (9%) ) and other online stores (3%).
“Recently, the number of conventional attacks on key sectors in Russia has been rapidly increasing. “Hackers use every opportunity to launch DDoS attacks for extortion and blackmail,” the company said.
They also noted that attackers launched attacks on a number of online stores in an attempt to make profits by taking advantage of Black Friday. That is, extorting money to stop the attack. DDoSs have also been implemented as part of unfair competition.
Previously expert said About the increase in the number of hacker attacks against Russia in 2024.