Peak Seasons: E-commerce Battlegrounds
For e-commerce retailers in Bangladesh, peak shopping campaigns — such as Eid festivals, Pohela Boishakh, Black Friday, and the 11.11 shopping festival — represent the bulk of annual revenue. However, these high-traffic events also attract cybercriminals. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have surged, with attackers using volumetric traffic to crash e-commerce websites and demand ransoms.
In late 2025, global DDoS traffic reached record-breaking peaks of 31.4 Terabits per second (Tbps), and this trend has continued into 2026.
The Anatomy of Modern DDoS Attacks
Modern DDoS attacks targeting local e-commerce are highly sophisticated and distinct from traditional volumetric flooding:
1. Hit-and-Run Attacks
Rather than long, sustained floods, attackers now deploy hit-and-run attacks lasting under 10 minutes. These short bursts are designed to disrupt transactions during peak sale launch hours, creating customer frustration, while avoiding detection by traditional threshold-based triggers.
2. Application Layer (Layer 7) Attacks
These attacks mimic legitimate user traffic, targeting specific API endpoints (like search queries, checkout pipelines, or payment gateways) to consume server CPU and database connections, freezing the site even with low bandwidth.
3. Botnet Amplification
Attackers harness networks of compromised IoT devices, digital video recorders (DVRs), and unpatched home routers across South Asia to flood websites, making geo-blocking ineffective.
Mitigation Strategies for Retailers
To protect revenue and brand reputation during peak sales, e-commerce platforms must implement a multi-layered defense:
- AI-Powered Bot Mitigation: Deploy Web Application Firewalls (WAF) that use behavioral analysis to distinguish between actual human shoppers and automated scraping/flooding bots.
- Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): Cache static assets on global edge servers to absorb volumetric traffic before it reaches your origin hosting server.
- Rate-Limiting on Checkout APIs: Configure strict rate-limits on login, OTP requests, and checkout API endpoints to prevent resources from being overwhelmed.
- DDoS Scrubbing Services: Engage with cloud-based DDoS mitigation providers who can redirect and clean traffic during active volumetric attacks.
Contact Oberon Services to build DDoS resilience for your e-commerce operations.