DDoS – or distributed denial of service attacks – remain a serious source of disruption across the internet. DDoS attacks continue to grow in their frequency and volume. And increasingly, they’re aligned to geopolitical events. A driver is sites offering “DDoS for hire”. The groups behind these sites even offer DDoS as a service attacks for free. But cybercrime groups are making use of AI too. This is leading to what researchers at NETSCOUT describe as a “digital battlefield", with DDoS attacks overwhelming underprepared defenders. Our guest is Richard Hummel, director of threat intelligence at NETSCOUT.