2018 H1 Gaming Industry DDoS Attack Landscape and Mitigation Recommendations
In the first half of 2018, the gaming industry faced a dramatic rise in DDoS attacks—accounting for nearly 40% of incidents and reaching a 1.23 Tbps peak on Tencent Cloud—driven largely by UDP‑based and MEMCACHED reflection floods, prompting comprehensive mitigation strategies such as BGP high‑defense, traffic filtering, and industry‑specific protections.