Hackers doubled the number of attacks on online retail before New Year's Eve

In the first half of December 2024, a significant increase in web attacks on a number of online retail companies is recorded. Alexey Pashkov, head of WAF and Anti-DDoS areas of Solar Group of Companies, told Izvestia.

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"On December 1, there was a sharp surge of web attacks on the sites of online stores - up to 453 thousand per day. On average, this figure does not exceed 20 thousand. Separately, we note that the daily number of attacks on websites in December this year more than doubled the figures for December 31, 2023 during the period of pre-New Year sales. At the same time, the growth of web attacks in December of that year began only at the end of the month," he said.

This, according to the expert, indicates the desire of attackers to damage online stores not only during the sales period.

"Obviously, this year hackers decided to attack online stores earlier to deprive businesses of profits and users of their orders. We strongly recommend online stores to set up application-level protection via Web Application Firewall, which includes protection from application-level DDoS attacks, from bots and targeted attacks by hackers," added Alexey Pashkov.

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