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Netscout doubles DDoS defense capacity to counter AI-driven botnets

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Distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks are changing shape. Attackers now use AI throughout the attack lifecycle, from reconnaissance to exploitation to hardening compromised devices against takeover by rival botnet operators. The result is larger, more coordinated botnets capable of direct, stateful attacks rather than the reflection and amplification techniques that dominated a few years ago. To keep up, defenders need more intelligence and more bandwidth. That’s what Netscout is targeting with the expansion of its Arbor Cloud DDoS mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps across 16 global scrubbing centers, up from a previous peak of 15 Tbps. The new capacity and capabilities come in part from the acquisition of DigiCert’s DDoS and WAF services, which occurred in May of this year. “AI is used on the forefront by attackers to carry out social social attacks, carry out infiltrations, look for vulnerabilities, find them quickly and exploit them,” Carlos Morales , senior vice president and

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