Microsoft Azure Warns on Killnets Growing DDoS Onslaught Against Healthcare

DDoS cyberattack campaigns from the pro-Russian group have spiked significantly.

The pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet, which launches its campaigns against countries supporting Ukraine, is ramping up its daily distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against healthcare organizations.
Microsofts Azure Network Security has released an overview of the groups attack patterns based off recent campaigns and found that the number of daily DDoS attacks, known as
a type of cyberattack
that can slow down systems by sending too many connection requests to a server, used against
Azure healthcare organizations went up to 40-60 attacks
in February, compared with 10-20 daily attacks last November.
The victim organizations of the attacks ranged from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals to health insurance and health services, according to the brief, which included data on how organizations can protect themselves and customers moving forward: Enable DDoS network protection, design your application with DDoS best practices in mind, ensure its protected before an attack occurs, create a DDoS response plan, reach out for help during an attack, and learn and adapt after an attack.
Though KillNets attacks havent done much to significantly disrupt any of the organizations that have been targeted so far, theres potential for the group to become more dangerous. The groups
focus on critical infrastructure
makes it essential that organizations take the steps necessary to protect themselves from future DDoS campaigns, Azure warned.

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