South Africa
The DDoS threat landscape is constantly evolving, and to stay ahead of adversaries, ongoing monitoring and analysis are essential to detect how they are modifying their behavior and targets. NETSCOUT monitors the global threat landscape and drills into regional and country-level statistics to ensure that adversaries inform us of near-real-time trends. The country-level analytics featured on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and provide a range of benchmarks for the specified time period, such as the top vectors used in DDoS attacks, top targeted industries, largest attack by bandwidth and throughput, most vectors used in an attack, and total attack frequency.
Max Multivector Attack
Max number of vectors seen in a single attack
19
Attack Vectors Used
1. CLDAP Amplification
2. DNS Amplification
3. ICMP
4. L2TP Amplification
5. MS SQL RS Amplification
6. NTP Amplification
7. NetBIOS Amplification
8. RIPv1 Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. SSDP Amplification
11. TCP ACK
12. TCP RST
13. TCP SYN
14. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
15. UDP
16. chargen Amplification
17. mDNS Amplification
18. memcached Amplification
19. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
24,116
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
22,357
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
21,157
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
20,363
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amp
Number of Attacks
15,953
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 1H 2023 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
8,281 | 2.49 Gbps | 0.23 Mpps | 90 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
7,306 | 12.53 Gbps | 1.05 Mpps | 10 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Other Computer Related Services
|
5,401 | 120.49 Gbps | 56.11 Mpps | 19 Minutes |
| 4 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
2,502 | 37.94 Gbps | 9.69 Mpps | 87 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
1,561 | 24 Gbps | 7.21 Mpps | 64 Minutes |
| 6 |
 Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
803 | 9.29 Gbps | 1.55 Mpps | 840 Minutes |
| 7 |
 All Other Telecommunications
|
207 | 0.25 Gbps | 0.52 Mpps | 13 Minutes |
| 8 |
 Beauty Salons
|
190 | 0.24 Gbps | 0.56 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 9 |
 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
|
74 | 2.62 Gbps | 3.93 Mpps | 52 Minutes |
| 10 |
 Newspaper Publishers
|
38 | 4.27 Gbps | 0.59 Mpps | 30 Minutes |