Pulse
SECURITY AND PROTECTION CONTINENT 8
Continent 8:
Te alarming rise in cyber attacks
Leon Allen, Innovation Director at Continent 8 Technologies, discusses the steep increase in
cyber-attacks, the impact of the pandemic and what online gambling businesses need to do to mitigate the risk of falling victim to one.
Leon Allen, Innovation Director, Continent 8 Technologies
The pandemic is certainly exacerbating this rise as criminals take advantage of the remote working ‘new normal’ world. Zoom accounts were hacked, meetings sabotaged, COVID-19 email phishing attempts exploited people’s fears and a new tranche of DDoS attacks brought down crucial cloud platforms and ecommerce sites.
P94 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS
Te number of cyber-attacks is on the rise, but so too is the intensity of these attacks. Tis means online gambling businesses are more vulnerable now than ever before.
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in particular have increased in volume, complexity and frequency with the likelihood of a business falling victim to an attack at an all-time high. In Q2 2020, Continent 8 saw attacks increase 55 per cent year on year and we also mitigated the longest DDoS attack in our history, lasting some 36 hours.
In April 2020, we recorded a total of 217 DDoS events, up from 48 the previous year. In May, events remained above the previous year at 25 compared with 15 in 2019. To mitigate this massive attack increase, at Continent 8 we have invested further in our network and almost doubled our total upstream capacity in the past year.
Undoubtedly, the global pandemic has contributed to the increase in cyber-attacks. But even before the pandemic began, DDoS attacks and web application attacks were rising year on year. Tis is largely due to the price of generating an attack continuing to fall because there are
many more devices to use to make an attack (Internet of Tings devices, etc.) and so much cheap bandwidth capacity available to distribute the attack.
With that in mind, however, the pandemic is certainly exacerbating that rise as criminals took advantage of the remote working ‘new normal’ world. Zoom accounts were hacked, meetings sabotaged, COVID-19 email phishing attempts exploited people’s fears and a new tranche of DDoS attacks brought down crucial cloud platforms and ecommerce sites.
As we hopefully move towards the end of the pandemic, the threat of being subject to a cyber- attack remains and online gambling businesses need to make sure they have taken the steps required to ensure they are as protected as can be.
Before discussing the products and services available to operators, let’s take a closer look at the different types of cyber-attack, the actors behind them and the impact they can have on a business.
CYBER-ATTACKS TAKE MANY FORMS
Te challenge for businesses is fighting off the many different types of cyber-attack being launched against them and their websites. Te main type of attack that businesses need to be aware of is the aforementioned DDoS attack, where a website is inundated with requests to the point its servers collapse under the demand.
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