Cloudflare report details website vulnerabilities exploited by evolving denial-of-service attack capabilities

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are evolving, with increased sophistication observed in hypertext transfer protocol attacks, Domain Name System laundering attacks and virtual machine botnets, according to cyber firm Cloudflare.

“The second quarter of 2023 was characterized by thought-out, tailored and persistent waves of DDoS attack campaigns on various fronts,” Cloudflare says in its latest quarterly DDoS threat report.

Cloudflare connects organizations in over 100 countries to cloud services and aggregates data for industry reports. “Cloudflare automatically detects and mitigates DDoS...