The NoName057(016) collective was the most active hacktivist group during 2023, during which it targeted 780 websites in 35 countries, Netscout reported. Credit: oz/Adobe Stock The NoName057(016) collective was the most active hacktivist group during 2023, during which it targeted 780 websites in 35 countries, Netscout reported. Credit: oz/Adobe Stock

There were more than 7 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during the second half of 2023, according to Netscout Systems, Inc. This was a 15% increase compared with the first half of 2023, a year which saw a total of 13 million DDoS attacks.

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