Navigating the 2024 holiday season: Insights into Azure’s DDoS defense

The 2024 holiday season revealed a complex and evolving threat landscape for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. This year’s trends included advanced tactics such as an increase in DDoS-for-hire operations, the assembly of massive DDoS botnets by script kiddies, politically motivated attack campaigns, and the bypass of CDN (Content Delivery Network) protections among other evolving threats. The post Navigating the 2024 holiday season: Insights into Azure’s DDoS defense appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .