While organizations of all sizes fell victim to DDoS last year, two of the world’s largest companies made headlines for suffering unprecedented attacks. In June 2020, Amazon revealed a DDoS attack on its public cloud earlier that year that peaked at 2.3 Tbps, almost twice the size of the previous largest recorded attack.

Trickbot ranks as the most popular malware with a UAE-wide impact of 7%, closely followed by Emotet and Hiddad impacting of 6% of organizations each.

“The CRI is fast becoming an indispensable resource for CISOs looking to assess their readiness to respond to cyberattacks,” said Jon Clay, director of global threat communications for Trend Micro.

ESET Research has been tracking its activities since its initial detection in late 2016. In 2020 alone, ESET’s botnet tracker platform analyzed more than 125,000 malicious samples and downloaded and decrypted.

ESET researchers have been “sinkholing” several domain names that control the botnet’s actions, replacing them with machines that do not send the botnet’s slave computers the commands they expect, but simply monitor botnet activity. Based on this data and ESET telemetry, ESET estimates that at least 35,000 devices became infected with VictoryGate at one point or another during this campaign.