{"id":57950,"date":"2026-04-28T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbip.nl\/?p=57950"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:14:06","slug":"ddos-attacks-in-q1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbip.nl\/en\/actueel\/ddos-attacks-in-q1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS-attacks in Q1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"57950\" class=\"elementor elementor-57950\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c294ec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9c294ec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d08ef2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d08ef2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b><strong>The DDoS mitigation service NaWas protects participants in the digital infrastructure against DDoS attacks and provides insight into changing trends in the field of DDoS. <\/strong><\/b><\/p><p>In the first quarter of 2026, NaWas mitigated a total of <b>2728 <\/b>DDoS attacks (+810 compared to Q4 2025). Measured in terms of the number of bits, the largest attack amounted to over <b>144.29 Gbps. <\/b>In terms packets per second, the largest attack was <strong>50.96<\/strong><b>\u00a0Mpps<\/b>.<\/p><div data-id=\"7d08ef2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><p><strong>Application Layer (L7) HTTP request flood<\/strong> remain the most common attack vector during this quarter, representing over 53% of all attacks observed. Within HTTP Floods, we observed a marked increase in the number of events targeting the HTTP\/3 QUIC protocol at very high packet rates. 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