Telecom was the area most attacked by hackers in Russia by the end of 2024. The press service of the StormWall company reported this to socialbites.ca.
According to experts, the number of attacks on telecom companies in the 4th quarter of 2023 increased by 316% compared to the 4th quarter of 2022. Hackers have actively attacked the telecom industry, as many regional telecom companies do not have professional protection and are unable to repel multi-vector DDoS attacks.
In total, telecom accounted for the largest share, 26% of the total DDoS attacks at the end of last year. While the financial sector had a share of 22%, retail closed the top 3 with a share of 19%. This is followed by the public sector (12%), the entertainment sector (8%), the energy sector (5%), the oil sector (4%) and the manufacturing sector (3%). Other sectors accounted for approximately 1% of all attacks.
Total attack volume in Q4 2023 increased by 67% compared to the same period last year. The most notable trend in DDoS attacks has been the dominance of traditional for-profit attacks over hacktivist attacks.
Previously Russia came It is one of the three leading countries in the world in pirated content consumption.