Accelerating DDoS Mitigation with eBPF in F5 NGINX App Protect DoS
Accelerating DDoS Mitigation with eBPF in F5 NGINX App Protect DoS The battle against DDoS attacks continues to transform. In the 2023 DDoS Attack Trends report, F5 Labs analyzed three years of recent data about distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and found that while attackers still use complex multi‑vector DDoS attacks, they have also shifted to launching more purely application‑layer (Layer 7) attacks. In 2022 alone, the prevalence of Layer 7 attacks grew by 165%. Counts of DDoS attack types, 2020–2022, showing a large increase in the number of application attacks and corresponding reduction in volumetric and multi‑vector attacks. Typically, attackers pursue the easiest path to achieve their goal, whether that means preventing operations of a website or extortion of a target. This rise in Layer 7 attacks may be an indication that it is becoming harder to launch a DDoS attack solely by using a volumetric or [ more… ]
