The 2023 Global DDoS Landscape Report by NSFOCUS highlights how Distributed Denial of Service attacks became central to cyber warfare and geopolitical conflicts. Attackers increasingly used cloud-based VPS, IoT devices, and botnets for scalable, sophisticated attacks. Hybrid, multi-vector assaults and new methods like SLP reflection and HTTP/2 Rapid Reset surged. North America and Asia were major sources, with government, finance, and internet industries most affected. Notable hacker groups included KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and NoName057(16). Major incidents linked to the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts emphasized DDoS as a tool of disruption and digital warfare.

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