United States of America
Staying ahead of the United States’ dynamic DDoS threat landscape requires continuous monitoring and analysis to understand how adversaries change their tactics and targets. NETSCOUT monitors the global threat landscape and examines regional and country-level statistics to stay informed of near-real-time trends by adversaries. The country-level analytics presented on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and feature various 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
26
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. COAP Amplification
4. DHCP Discovery Amplification
5. DNS
6. DNS Amplification
7. ICMP
8. L2TP Amplification
9. MS SQL RS Amplification
10. Memcached Amplification
11. NTP Amplification
12. NetBIOS Amplification
13. RDP Amplification
14. RIPv1 Amplification
15. SNMP Amplification
16. SSDP Amplification
17. TCP ACK
18. TCP RST
19. TCP SYN
20. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
21. TCP null
22. UDP
23. WS-DD Amplification
24. chargen Amplification
25. mDNS Amplification
26. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
283,264
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
214,840
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
214,727
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
179,786
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
165,283
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 2H 2022 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
331,864 | 890.68 Gbps | 286.8 Mpps | 44 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
197,971 | 733.29 Gbps | 165.32 Mpps | 45 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
78,717 | 268.12 Gbps | 24.97 Mpps | 54 Minutes |
| 4 |
 Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
45,240 | 117.11 Gbps | 119.59 Mpps | 36 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
|
32,893 | 712.17 Gbps | 201.02 Mpps | 194 Minutes |
| 6 |
 Hobby Toy and Game Stores
|
18,429 | 162.5 Gbps | 133.28 Mpps | 173 Minutes |
| 7 |
 National Security
|
12,032 | 27.17 Gbps | 6.93 Mpps | 27 Minutes |
| 8 |
 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
|
9,670 | 134.87 Gbps | 495.09 Mpps | 97 Minutes |
| 9 |
 Full-Service Restaurants
|
6,329 | 26.4 Gbps | 2.2 Mpps | 20 Minutes |
| 10 |
 All Other Telecommunications
|
4,865 | 77.06 Gbps | 82.62 Mpps | 15 Minutes |