Russian Companies Face Doubled Web Attacks in 2025: Sector Breakdown and Mitigation

Russian organizations experienced a 100% increase in web-based cyberattacks during Q1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to new data from Solar Group¹. The energy sector saw the most dramatic escalation with DDoS incidents growing tenfold, while retail and logistics faced targeted API assaults exceeding 135% year-over-year growth².

Attack Volume and Methodology

Solar Group’s telemetry recorded 801.2 million web attacks against Russian entities in Q1 2025, with daily peaks reaching 453,000 incidents against e-commerce platforms³. The attacks employed evolving techniques including:

DNS rebinding against energy sector SCADA systems
CSS/XML injection targeting retail payment gateways
L3-L4 DDoS floods averaging 724 Gbps

A 1.3 million-device botnet demonstrated new capabilities, executing “sprint attacks” with 70,000 hourly request bursts against online bookmakers⁴. This represents a sixfold increase in botnet size compared to 2024’s largest recorded network.

Sector-Specific Impacts

The energy industry absorbed 2,500 DDoS incidents in Q1 alone, with attackers using prolonged low-volume probes to identify vulnerabilities before launching multi-vector assaults⁵. Solar Group’s Alexey Pashkov noted these often served as distractions for concurrent data exfiltration attempts.

Retail systems faced 3.4 million attacks during November 2024’s Black Friday sales, primarily targeting:

Sector	Attack Type	Volume Increase
Cosmetics/Perfume	Payment API Exploits	162% YoY
Electronics	Inventory System Manipulation	128% YoY

Defensive Recommendations

Solar Group’s Sergey Levin emphasized API security hardening after observing 42% of Q1 attacks exploiting unprotected interfaces⁶. Effective countermeasures include:

“Deploying Web Application Firewalls with behavioral analysis capabilities reduced successful retail breaches by 78% in our client deployments during peak attack periods.”
– Sergey Levin, Solar Group

Network telemetry from Qrator.Radar showed modern DDoS attacks now average just 11.5 minutes duration, requiring automated mitigation systems capable of sub-minute response times⁷.

Conclusion

The 2024-2025 attack surge demonstrates adversaries’ rapid adaptation to Russian network defenses. With critical infrastructure and high-value retail systems under sustained assault, organizations must prioritize real-time traffic analysis and API security controls. Solar Group’s full Q1 threat report provides additional technical indicators and detection rules available through their threat intelligence portal⁸.