Hackers start using carpet bombing-like attacks in Russia 13:55

In 2024, attackers began to more actively use a new DDoS attack tactic that experts call “carpet bombing.” Signs of similar events were seen in many countries, including Russia. socialbites.ca learned about this from a new report from StormWall.

Analytics center StormWall found that the number of “carpet bombings” in Russia in the first quarter of 2024 increased by 174% compared to the same period last year, when this method first began to spread. If we talk about the situation in the world, according to the results of the first quarter of this year, there were 193 percent more “carpet bombings” at the global level compared to last year.

The carpet bombing tactic has recently been adopted by attackers and the method has rapidly become popular around the world. Carpet bombing is a term that refers to DDoS attacks that target a range of addresses or subnets containing hundreds or even thousands of IP addresses simultaneously. Often, hackers perform “carpet bombing” using botnets. This method is ideal for attacks against Internet providers, cloud services and data centers.

StormWall experts found that the most “carpet bombings” in Russia in 2024 target the telecommunications sector (43%), online retail (28%), the energy sector (17%) and the travel segment (9%). The remaining 3% of such attacks were aimed at the financial sector, transportation sector, government services and entertainment sector.

The largest such attack detected in the Russian Federation was against an internet provider and involved approximately 8,000 targets. According to StormWall experts, the average power of a single DDoS attack during carpet bombing was small, around 60-70 Gbit/s. However, at the peaks, the attack power was higher and reached 900 Gbit/s.

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