According to Qrator Labs, the intensity of DDoS attacks has decreased in Russia. A decrease in activity has been observed since March 9-10. The attacks on the websites of Russian companies have increased since February 24. The most elaborate and massive attack in terms of the number of simultaneously used devices was observed on March 7 - more than 3.5 million devices were used.

According to Alexander Lyamin, the founder of Qrator Labs, “the observed attacks are also characterized by the fact that they are Application Layer (L7) attacks, the traffic of which resembles the activity of ordinary users”. Filtering of such traffic requires a large amount of resources and computing capacities.

Kaspersky Lab noted that the peak of attacks had been observed from February 23 to February 25, but this is true “if we look only at the number of repelled attacks”. A spokesperson of the company says that now very long attacks, which last for days, are mostly taking place.

Earlier it was reported that from February 20 to mid-March state-owned companies, the media and banks had faced a new wave of emails with malware.

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