The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, has published a report on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape for DoS attacks. The report covers the period of January 2022 to August 2023.
The main highlights of the report are the following:
- A novel classification scheme to categorize DoS attacks based on information about the attacks and the targets, allowing a more systematic analysis approach.
- An analysis of DoS attacks’ motivations and goals as part of the proposed classification, making it possible to analyze not only the technical evolution of the attacks but also the changes in the roots of what triggers the attacks in the first place.
- An analysis of a total of 310 verified DoS incidents – from January 2022 to August 2023. This is not the total number of incidents during that period, however.
- The most affected sector was the public administration sector, receiving 46% of attacks.
- It is estimated that 66% of the attacks were motivated by political reasons or activist agendas.
- Overall, 50% of the incidents were found to be related to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
- The study shows that 56.8% of the attacks caused total disruption in the target.
- This report also highlights the importance of cyber as a force multiplier or supporting vector in warfare, the changes that this brings to the landscape, and that it is vital that organizations prepare prevention and remediation strategies. Furthermore, this report raises awareness of the lack of maturity when it comes to reporting DoS attacks, which have not reached the same level as other types of cybersecurity threats.
Read more about it here.