Study: Adult Sites Targeted by Frequent DDoS Attacks in 2019

Study: Adult Sites Targeted by Frequent DDoS Attacks in 2019

LOS ANGELES — A new study by a leading cybersecurity firm found that adult websites were targeted more than any other type of website for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in 2019.

The firm, Imperva, found that the adult websites they tracked received an average of 84 DDoS attacks in 2019. This exceeds the second-place industry, gaming, in which sites had less than 15 attacks, or less than 20 percent of attacks on adult sites. 

"Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it may be worth more to the U.S. economy than Netflix, the NBA or the NFL, we found that the adult industry was the most attacked by far," note the study's authors. "Every adult site we tracked over the course of the year experienced an average 84 attacks which, between May and December, equates to 10.5 attacks per site each month."

DDoS attacks occur when a website is deliberately flooded with external communications requests, which render it unable to respond to any individual request, in effect making the site inoperable.

To download a copy of the full report, click here.

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