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
28
Attack Vectors Used
1. CLDAP Amplification
2. COAP Amplification
3. DHCP Discovery Amplification
4. DNS
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. ISAKMP
8. MS SQL RS Amplification
9. NTP Amplification
10. NetBIOS Amplification
11. OpenVPN Amplification
12. QOTD Amplification
13. RIPv1 Amplification
14. SNMP Amplification
15. SSDP Amplification
16. STUN Amplification
17. TCP ACK
18. TCP RST
19. TCP SYN
20. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
21. UDP
22. WS-DD Amplification
23. chargen Amplification
24. mDNS Amplification
25. memcached Amplification
26. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
86,493
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
68,627
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
65,368
Np
NTP Amp
Number of Attacks
42,928
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
35,412
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 1H 2024 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
54,455 | 71.03 Gbps | 16.74 Mpps | 24 Minutes |
| 2 |
Other Computer Related Services
|
47,023 | 168.55 Gbps | 14.22 Mpps | 100 Minutes |
| 3 |
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
10,720 | 183.84 Gbps | 40.74 Mpps | 15 Minutes |
| 4 |
Beauty Salons
|
5,397 | 47.4 Gbps | 4.55 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 5 |
Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
5,349 | 10.92 Gbps | 0.95 Mpps | 35 Minutes |
| 6 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
1,200 | 44.17 Gbps | 4.43 Mpps | 475 Minutes |
| 7 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
1,147 | 111.6 Gbps | 14.07 Mpps | 10 Minutes |
| 8 |
Computer Systems Design Services
|
1,090 | 2.14 Gbps | 0.18 Mpps | 8 Minutes |
| 9 |
Software Publishers
|
1,026 | 3.67 Gbps | 0.87 Mpps | 18 Minutes |
| 10 |
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
996 | 3.85 Gbps | 0.4 Mpps | 437 Minutes |