Solution Brief

The Rise in Web DDoS Attacks and How To Stay Protected

Disruptive Web DDoS Tsunami Attacks

As seen in the recent attack campaigns, attackers are leveraging multiple types and vectors of attacks as part of one campaign, combining both network and application layer attack vectors and leveraging new tools to create sophisticated attacks that are harder, and sometimes impossible, to detect and mitigate with traditional methods.

Using these new attack tools, attackers generate new types of HTTPS Flood attacks—also referred to as Web DDoS Tsunami attacks—that are more sophisticated and aggressive. These unique attacks are higher in volume with very high requests-per second (RPS). They are encrypted and appear as legitimate requests. They leverage sophisticated evasion techniques to bypass traditional app protections.

Background: Evolution of the Latest Attack Campaigns

In 2025, we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in Web DDoS Tsunami attacks, driven by technological advancements and the widespread availability of AI tools. These tools, accessible to both cybercriminals and security professionals, enable the creation of highly sophisticated attack methods that can bypass common defenses.

AI-powered tools have revolutionized the cyber threat landscape by automating and enhancing the capabilities of attackers. These tools can generate complex, multi-vector attacks that are difficult to detect and mitigate. The use of machine learning and AI deep learning algorithms allows attackers to adapt their strategies in real-time, making traditional security measures less effective.

Why Current Protections Are Ineffective

The move towards encrypted attacks and the increase in the scale and sophistication of these attacks raises the bar needed for detection. These changes essentially render network-based DDoS mitigation tools, as well as traditional on-prem and cloud-based WAF solutions, ineffective against these attacks.

Network-based DDoS protection solutions are simply unequipped to detect and accurately mitigate application-layer DDoS attacks. Detecting and mitigating such attacks require decryption of the attack traffic and deeper inspection into the L7 headers.

What You Need To Stay Protected

Comprehensive 360-Degree Application Protection
To protect against these new campaigns, organizations need to opt for a comprehensive, adaptive application protection service—one that keeps them protected against threat vectors as the business grows and applications evolve, while eliminating management overhead and enabling the fastest time to protection.

Check Point Powered by Radware’s Cloud Application Protection Service provides a best-of-suite, one-stop shop for all your application protection needs. It combines best-of-breed WAF, bot management and Account Takeover (ATO) Protection, API protection, client-side protection, and Web DDoS protection in a single solution.

New Advanced Protection against Web DDoS Attacks

Check Point Powered by Radware’s Cloud Web DDoS Protection solution is uniquely designed to protect against high-scale, newly emerging Web DDoS Tsunami attacks and provide customers with advanced protection at the scale needed to combat these threats.

1. Automated, Accurate Detection and Mitigation with Minimal False Positives
   The solution leverages dedicated, behavioral-based algorithms with advanced learning capabilities designed to quickly detect and surgically block L7 DDoS attacks while minimizing false positives and not blocking legitimate traffic.

2. Widest Attack Coverage Protecting from the Most Advanced, Zero-Day Attacks
   Unique algorithms provide protection from a wide range of L7 DDoS threats including smaller-scale, sophisticated attacks, new L7 attack tools and vectors, and large-scale, sophisticated Web DDoS Tsunami attacks.

3. Best Protection for the High-Scale Web DDoS Tsunami Attacks
   A combination of automated algorithms and high-scale infrastructure is needed to accurately protect against these high RPS (requests per second) sophisticated L7 DDoS threats.

Summary

Web DDoS attacks are increasing in scale and sophistication. As observed in the recent attack campaigns, attack tactics start with high-volume network-based flood attacks, and then evolve to more sophisticated multi-vector application-level attacks that are hard to detect and mitigate.

To protect against these new campaigns, organizations need to opt for a comprehensive, adaptive cloud application protection service that keeps them protected against threat vectors as the business grows and applications evolve, while eliminating management overhead and enabling the fastest time to protection.