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Mike Matchett: From their technical perspective, you're seeing a lot of, uh, traffic and information, though, that starts to say, hey, these these attacks are coming from certain places and going certain places, and they're probably due to certain things going on in the real world. Uh, real, real events that are happening, you know, regional conflicts, things that have the potential to boil over and get lots of lots of people moving, especially if it's cheap and easy to create a botnet these days. Uh, so what do you have any insight as to as to how what goes on in the real world affects the DDoS uh, situation with with websites? Mike Ripley: Absolutely. I can take this one, Mike. Uh, I think the main thing that we're typically seeing is that, as you kind of highlighted, right, there's a lot of ongoing conflicts, right, between, you know, things going on in the Middle East and otherwise. And so when we take a look at, uh, one example, right, the Israeli Palestinian conflict, we saw this massive uptick in http, DDoS attacks on both Israeli and Palestinian websites. And, you know, looking at Israeli websites, we saw roughly 27% increase quarter over quarter, um, from Q3 to Q4. And then looking at Palestinian websites, you you can, you know, see it for yourself. That's over an 1,100% increase, um, in relative to the region's traffic. Um, Palestinian territories were the second most attacked region by Http, DDoS attacks in Q4, and then over 10% of all, you know, Http requests that we saw towards Palestinian websites were DDoS attacks. So just to give you a sense of the numbers there. Mike Matchett: Yeah. So it does look like this affects both sides in any sort of, uh, conflict as as it's easy, easy cost of entry for anybody around the world to, to spin up a DDoS attack in some ways and, and just go after it. Right. They, they don't have to have penetrated, as you said, they can just be throwing traffic up against, uh, against IP addresses or DNS services in those areas. Right. And target them. Um, you know, I found it interesting too, Mike. Uh, maybe, you know, Omar mentioned earlier that going after climate change, people. What is that about? What did you see there? Mike Ripley: Yeah, absolutely. So typically in the, you know, fourth quarter of every year, the United Nation puts on their, uh, climate change conference. So this is something where we typically see a massive uptick in terms of attacks against environmental service industry. And, you know, the numbers speak for themselves. Right? We saw over a, you know, 60, almost 62,000% increase in attacks towards environmental services websites. And so what this really means is that they are experiencing this massive surge every year. Right? Because Cop 28 this year took place from November 30th to the December 12th. And it's a pretty important event because it signals what many considered the end of the fossil fuel era. So to coincide with that, we saw this massive uptick. And we've noticed this over the last few years as Cop takes place every year. You know, cop 26, Cop 27, as well as other sort of UN related environmental, uh, resolutions and announcements. We see a similar pattern every year.
