United Kingdom Under DDoS Siege: Weekly DDoS Threat Intelligence Analysis

SOCRadar observed a concentrated DDoS campaign by pro‑Russian hacktivist NoName057(16)/DDoSia from 5–11 January 2026 that generated 1,812 recorded attacks against 86 unique domains and 87 IPs—85.2% of which targeted the United Kingdom—focusing on government, critical infrastructure (ports, rail), and financial sectors; attacks were multi‑vector (TCP SYN/ACK floods, HTTP GET/POST floods, nginx_loris, HTTP/2) heavily targeting HTTPS (port 443), and the report includes targeted host lists, attack metrics, and recommended mitigations such as cloud DDoS protection, WAF tuning, rate limiting, and incident preparedness.