The Most DDoS Attacks Came in August 2021
That month, the Azure DDoS Protection team mitigated an average of 1,955 attacks per day, according to the report. That marked a 40% increase over the first half of 2021.
The maximum number of recorded attacks in a day totaled 4,296. That was on Aug.10.
In all, the Azure folks say they mitigated almost 360,000 unique attacks against global infrastructure during 2021’s second half. For perspective, that amounts to a 43% increase compared to the first half of last year.