Summary Bullets:

• In new research from telco operator Lumen, the provider posits that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the increase in connected home devices to use them to build out bot networks for DDoS and other application attacks.

• For the first time, banking was the most targeted sector for DDoS attacks, largely because a single day in September 2023 when Lumen helped one institution stave off 230 separate attacks.

In research Lumen released this week based on DDoS and application threat data captured on its mitigation platform, the operator observed interesting trends in the way hackers are applying more sophisticated, and in some cases, relentless tactics to flood targeted enterprise servers with malicious traffic and steal data. Threat actors are tapping connected consumer devices to launch denial of services incidents.

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