In recent years, DDoS attacks have only been increasing in both frequency and severity. Here, we’ll examine Top 5 DDoS attacks of 2019.
1. Recently Amazon’s cloud computing division AWS has experienced a sustained DDoS attack that appears to have lasted for around eight hours. As a result of the DDoS attack, many customers of AWS were unable to access the company’s S3 service and a number of AWS services were forced to rely on external DNS queries.
2. McAfeeDEX was hit by DDoS attack, days after the beta launch of a decentralized exchange (DEX).
3.Wikipedia was hit with a malicious DDoS attack in the month of September that has taken it offline in multiple countries for intermittent periods.
4. Encrypted Messaging App Telegram was hit by powerful DDoS cyber attack in Asia. As a result, in the month of June, it affected its users globally.
5. Ubisoft, one of the largest gaming companies today, was also hit by a long chain of DDoS cyber attacks. This was not the first time when a gaming giant has suffered large-scale DDoS attacks. As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers including Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and Far Cry 5 were facing connectivity issues.
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