In the first quarter of 2025, IT companies became the main target of DDOS attacks in Russia. This sector constitutes 37% of all recorded events. This is three times higher than the same period of 2024, where the share of IT companies is only 11%. This was recognized by Gazeta.ru from a study conducted by Garda Group of Companies.
Experts associate a sharp increase in attacks in an IT sector with the ongoing digitalization of the economy. Information technologies move more and more as the point of entering the extensive ecosystems of other companies concerning cyber criminals.
Compared to the end of 2024, although the pressure on telecom operators decreased (29% in the first quarter of 55% in the fourth quarter), analysts, in the activity of the aggressors in relation to Telecom, against the background of the festival activity in relation to users, until the end of the year, until the end of the year, until the end of the year. targets.
In the number of attacks, there was a public sector, which made up 13% of the events. This is almost twice as much as 2024 (7%) at the end of 2024, which shows the interest that is preserved to state digital services. An important attack attack was recorded in the sectors of the services (from 2% to 9%) and in the industry (from 1% to 7%). Even though they remained under the list, there was a slight increase in activity even in education and finance. These changes show the use of multi -vector attack tactics that affect not only the network, but also the level applied.
The first quarter of 2025 confirmed the use of “intelligence” tactics to describe the fixed tendency and security deficits for multi -vector attacks. At the end of the year, it remains cycle with activity summits. The general development vector of the DDOS view was shifted to more complex techniques aiming to expose and violate digital services and end users.
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Source: Gazeta
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