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How Nation-State DDoS Attacks Impact Us All

DARKReading, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024

Global organizations and geopolitical entities must adopt new strategies to combat the growing sophistication in attacks that parallel the complexities of our new geopolitical reality.

Today, it's rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks driven by geopolitical instability. Now, a single attack can include numerous countries and networks. While the war between Russia and Ukraine and elections in NATO countries like Poland drive geopolitically focused DDoS attacks, it's important to understand that these threats were present long before these conflicts, and will be around long after. But why are these attacks against governmental institutions so prominent, and why do they impact all of us in the first place?

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