{"id":36594,"date":"2021-02-17T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36594"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:07:59","slug":"kaspersky-lab-links-decline-in-ddos-attacks-to-rising-cryptocurrency-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kaspersky-lab-links-decline-in-ddos-attacks-to-rising-cryptocurrency-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky Lab links decline in DDoS attacks to rising cryptocurrency prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In the fourth quarter of 2020, the total number of DDoS attacks fell by about 30% from the third quarter, according to data from <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/securelist.ru\/ddos-attacks-in-q4-2020\/100469\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Kaspersky Lab data<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">. Specialists attribute this to the rise in prices of many cryptocurrencies.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Analysts note that botnet operators redirected some capacity to mining. The share of lightweight attacks fell, while the number of \u201csmart attacks\u201d did not decline significantly:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth quarter of 2020, the total number of DDoS attacks fell by about 30% from the third quarter, according to data from Kaspersky Lab. Analysts attribute this to the rise in prices of many cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1772,1553],"class_list":["post-36594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ddos-attacks","tag-kaspersky-lab"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36596,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36594\/revisions\/36596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}