FUD article focusing on DDOS/Stresser/Booter incidents but doesn't share any data to show an upward trend on Christmas.

Using this data on breaches we can see there's more incident/breach activity in October than any other month. https://github.com/ericalexanderorg/SecurityBreach

Number of incidents and impact on people are different things, right. I wonder when targets impacting more end-users end up happening. Taking out something like the Playstation network or Netflix will have a large impact in that way.

This is less hacking and more script kiddies. Not really that interesting.

There must be some sort of Betteridge's Law about this. I swear, every time I see the word "hackers" in a headline, it's always about either script kiddies, phishing scams, simple passwords, or some other trivial breach.

For most intents and purposes the world doesn't differentiate between hackers and script kiddies.

The world cares about individuals breaking into systems and stealing or breaking their stuff. They aren't particularly concerned about the technical sophistication of said individuals.

All script kiddies are hackers but not all hackers are script kiddies.

I’d say anecdotally that this is true, though maybe not for ddos behavior; it certainly makes sense to attack when less people are at the office

Not to mention all of the devices opened and connected to the internet today -- without the new users stopping pull down updates and security patches first...

My fail2ban is indeed singing jingle bells for the last 24h.

But as other stated, those are more scripts than « real » concerted attacks.

But on my small level, I confirm that holiday times (and not just those end of the year holidays, but anytimes there are office closed days (and we have a lot of them in France)) are always times where script/automatic attacks volume are rising on my servers.

This was true even in the early 90s. A lot fewer syadamins at work means more room to play.

Victim today. None in past 10 years. But two international transactions at travel portals. Luckily found and blocked the card for now.