In the first quarter of 2024, DDoS attacks in the Middle East and North Africa region increased by 183% year-on-year, according to experts from. StormWall analyzed DDoS attacks against the company’s customers in the MENA region in Q1 2024 and shared its findings in aThe ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict has fueled a surge in hacktivism in Q1 2024.
This growth in botnet capacity enables attackers to launch more powerful DDoS attacks, particularly carpet-bombing attacks, which increased by 264% year-over-year. Carpet bombing attacks target a wide range of IP addresses within a network, saturating the entire infrastructure with traffic.The United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , and Iran were the most targeted countries in the MENA region in Q1 2024.